Gyula Ortutay
Minister of Religion and Education of Hungary
In office 14 March 1947 – 25 February 1950
Preceded by	Dezső Keresztury
Succeeded by	József Darvas
Personal details
Born	(1910-03-24)24 March 1910 Szabadka,Austria-Hungary
Died	22 March 1978(1978-03-22) (aged 67) Budapest,People's Republic of Hungary
Political party	FKGP
Spouse	Zsuzsa Kemény
Children	Mária Tamás Zsuzsanna
Profession	ethnographer, politician

Gyula Ortutay (24 March 1910 – 22 March 1978) was aHungarian ethnographer and politician, who served asMinister of Religion and Education between 1947 and 1950.

Born inSzabadka (now:Subotica,Serbia) to a Catholicpetty bourgeois family. His parents were István Ortutay journalist, editor of theSzegedi Napló and Ilona Borsodi. He finished his secondary school studies at thepiarists in Szeged. After that he attended theFranz Joseph University from 1928. Hispsychology teacher wasHildebrand Dezső Várkonyi. Soon he was making left-wing friends such asMiklós Radnóti,Gábor Tolnai,Dezső Baróti,Ferenc Erdei,György Buday andViola Tomori.

He married Zsuzsa Kemény, who served as chairperson of the Hungarian Dance Association from 1948, in 1938. They have three children: Mária (psychologist), Tamás (ceramist) and Zsuzsanna (district nurse).

He got into contact with the communist intellectuals (László Orbán,Gyula Kállai,Ferenc Hont) in the end of the 1930s. butEndre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky had the largest effect on him. From 1942 he participated in theantifascist movements. In the next year he joined theIndependent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party (FKGP). He was Secretary-General of the National Council ofThe People's Patriotic Front.

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