Bálint Magyar | |
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| Minister of Education of Hungary | |
| In office 27 May 2002 – 9 June 2006 | |
| Preceded by | József Pálinkás |
| Succeeded by | István Hiller (Education and Culture) |
| In office 1 January 1996 – 8 July 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Gábor Fodor |
| Succeeded by | Zoltán Pokorni |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1952-11-15)15 November 1952 (age 73) |
| Political party | SZDSZ |
| Spouse | Róza Hodosán |
| Children | Annamária |
| Profession | politician |
Bálint Magyar (born asJános Magyar; 15 November 1952) is aHungarian politician, who served asMinister of Education between 1996 and 1998 and between 2002 and 2006. He was a founding member of theAlliance of Free Democrats.
His bookMagyar polip – A posztkommunista maffiaállam (2013) describes modern Hungary as amafia state.[1] An English translation of the book,Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary, was published in 2016.[2][3]
His paternal grandparents were the journalist Elek Magyar and Berta Kürthy, who was granddaughter of the 19th-century Hungarian prime ministerBertalan Szemere. His father is the writer and theatre manager Bálint Magyar Sr. His mother, Olga Siklós (b. Schwarcz), was born to a Jewish family inKolozsvár. Bálint has a sister, Fruzsina who is the wife ofImre Mécs. Bálint Magyar's wife isRóza Hodosán, a former member of theNational Assembly of Hungary. They have a daughter, Annamária.
He earned a degree in history from theFaculty of Humanities of theEötvös Loránd University in 1977. Magyar is a Research Fellow at the Financial Research Institute (since 2010) with a doctoral degree in political economy (1980) fromFaculty of Law of theEötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He has published and edited numerous books on post-communist mafia states since 2013. He was an Open Society Fellow for carrying out comparative studies in this field (2015–2016), Hans Speier Visiting Professor at the New School (2017), and a Senior Fellow at the CEU Institute for Advanced Study (2018–2019). Formerly, he was an activist of the Hungarian anti-communist dissident movement, founder of the Liberal Party of Hungary (SZDSZ, 1988), a member of the Hungarian Parliament (1990–2010), and the Hungarian minister of education (1996–1998, 2002–2006).[4]
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| Preceded by | Minister of Education 1996–1998 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of Education 2002–2006 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | President of the Alliance of Free Democrats 1998–2000 | Succeeded by |
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