József Antall
József Antall ( kisjenői ) [ jo ː ʒɛf ɒntɒl kiʃjɛnø ː i] ( born April 8, 1932 in Budapest, † December 12, 1993 in Budapest) was a Hungarian high school teacher, librarian, museologist and politicians. He was the Prime Minister of the first freely elected Hungarian government after the political changes in Hungary in 1989.
Curriculum vitae
József Antall comes from a small noble, Christian Democratic family. His father, József Antall senior, was a lawyer who helped during the Second World War, Polish, including Jewish refugees in Hungary and was awarded the title of Righteous among the Nations, worked in several ministries, and among other things, the first method of calculating the subsistence developed.
He graduated in Piaristengymnasium in Budapest in 1950. Already at the age of 16, he decided to pursue a political career. After leaving school he majored in Hungarian language and literature and history at the University of Budapest. He wrote his thesis on the politics of József Eötvös and even acquired additional training as museologist and librarian. After graduation he worked at the National Archives of Hungary and later at the Institute for Education. He began in 1955 to teach at the József Eötvös College and launched in October 1956, the local revolutionary committee. He took part in the reorganization of the Association of Young Christians. After the revolution he was arrested several times, but was allowed to continue teaching. He came as a teacher at the Ferenc Toldy -Gymnasium in Budapest, but in 1959 he was granted teaching ban. After his suspension he worked for two years as a librarian. In 1963 he wrote 80 Physicians biographies for the Hungarian Biography Encyclopedia. He later became head of the Semmelweis Museum of the History of Medicine. He had held this position until 1974. During his work he met many doctors and historians know. In 1986 he was appointed Deputy Head of the International Federation of the history of medicine.
Political career
In March 1989, the Round Table of the opposition was launched in Hungary. The Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF ), which had been operating as a registered party at the time, delegated to this body also Antall, who received more and more attention due to its constructive constitutional motions, so that he was elected on October 21, 1989 Chairman of the MDF. After the electoral victory of MDF in 1990 József Antall was commissioned to form a government. He created with his government the conditions for political, economic and foreign policy change in Hungary. However, he was already seriously ill and died before the end of his term in 1993 from cancer. He is buried in the cemetery út in the Fiumei ( Kerepesi temető ). For the remaining months up to the 1994 elections Péter Boross was appointed Prime Minister.