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Hungarian politician
Balint Magyar
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In office
27 May 2002 ? 9 June 2006
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| Preceded by
| Jozsef Palinkas
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| Succeeded by
| Istvan Hiller
(Education and Culture)
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In office
1 January 1996 ? 8 July 1998
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| Preceded by
| Gabor Fodor
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| Succeeded by
| Zoltan Pokorni
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1952-11-15
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15 November 1952
(age 71)
Budapest
,
Hungary
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| Political party
| SZDSZ
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| Spouse
| Roza Hodosan
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| Children
| Annamaria
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| Profession
| politician
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Balint Magyar
(born as
Janos Magyar
; 15 November 1952) is a
Hungarian
politician, who served as
Minister of Education
between 1996?1998 and between 2002?2006. He was a founding member of the
Alliance of Free Democrats
.
His book
Magyar polip ? A posztkommunista maffiaallam
(2013) describes modern Hungary as a
mafia state
.
[1]
An English translation of the book,
Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary
, was published in 2016.
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Family
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His paternal grandparents were the journalist Elek Magyar and Berta Kurthy who was granddaughter of the 19th century Hungarian Prime Minister
Bertalan Szemere
. His father is the writer and theatre manager Balint Magyar, Sr. His mother, Olga Siklos (b. Schwarcz), was born to a Jewish family in
Kolozsvar
. Balint has a sister, Fruzsina who is the wife of
Imre Mecs
. Balint Magyar's wife is
Roza Hodosan
, a former member of the
National Assembly of Hungary
. They have a daughter, Annamaria.
Career
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He earned a degree in history from the
Faculty of Humanities
of the
Eotvos Lorand University
in 1977. Magyar is a Research Fellow at the Financial Research Institute (since 2010) with a Doctoral degree in Political Economy (1980) from
Faculty of Law
of the
Eotvos Lorand 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).
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