Béla Jankovich de Vadas et Jeszenicze (29 April 1865 – 5 August 1939) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education between 1913 and 1917. He studied in the Theresianum of Vienna, University of Budapest,

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and

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. Between 1891 and 1893 he travelled around the world, he went to the United States, to China and Japan. After his returning to home he farmed on his possessions of

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. Jankovich became a member of the House of Representatives in 1910 in the colours of the Party of National Work. Between 1911 and 1913 he served as second deputy speaker of the lower house. He was appointed

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lor in 1912. Before his ministerial appointment he worked as state secretary of the Ministry of Religion and Education for less than two weeks. Then

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appointed him minister on 26 February 1913. Jankovich held this position until the resignation of the

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cabinet. More educational reforms are connected his name, onto the defiance for the First World War and the economic crisis. His laws directed the state, denominational and privacy

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s' legal status. He extended the free education: school councils were created, which checked the efficiency of the teaching, the school attendance and the

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. The ministry organized the secondary schools with a specialisation in the sciences. They acknowledged the

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legally. Jankovich used mathematical methods as an economist between the first ones to economic analyses. He was corresponding member of the

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1865 births 1939 deaths Politicians from Budapest Education ministers of Hungary Alumni of University College London People from Mukachevo {{Hungary-politician-stub