György Bence (
Budapest
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, 8 December 1941 – 28 October 2006, Budapest) was a university professor, philosopher, dissident and political consultant.
In 1979 he was among the first Hungarians who criticized together with
Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (; 21 May 192114 December 1989) was a Soviet Physics, physicist and a List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world.
Alt ...
and others the
Soviet
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crackdown on the Czech
Charter 77
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signatories.
Later he was among the founding members of the
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. He was founding editor-in-chief of the
Budapesti Könyvszemle (1989–1995).
See also
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János Kis
János Kis (born 17 September 1943) is a Hungarian philosopher and political scientist, who served as the inaugural leader of the liberal Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) from 1990 to 1991. He is considered to be the first Leader Hungarian pa ...
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Metazin list of obituariesReview of Bence's collection
1941 births
2006 deaths
Writers from Budapest
Hungarian Jews
Jewish philosophers
20th-century Hungarian philosophers
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