Early Life
István Tisza was the son of Count Kálmán Tisza de Borosjenő, prime minister of Hungary between 1875–1890 from the Liberal Party. His mother was Ilona Degenfeld-Schomburg. The Tiszas were originally a Calvinist untitled nobility (regarded as equivalent to the British gentry). Tisza took legal studies in Berlin, Heidelberg, Budapest, and received a doctorate at Oxford in political science. He then took care of the family land at Bihar and Geszt for five years. He got his electoral mandate in 1886 with the Liberal Party. He received the title of Count in 1897. He was the president of the Hungarian Industrial and Commercial Bank (Magyar Ipar- és Kereskedelmi Bank) and was a member of the boards of numerous joint-stock companies.
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