György Szabad (4 August 1924 – 3 July 2015) was a Hungarian politician and historian, founding member of the

Hungarian Democratic Forum The Hungarian Democratic Forum (, , MDF) was a centre-right political party in Hungary. It had a Hungarian nationalist, national-conservative, Christian-democratic ideology. The party was represented continuously in the National Assembly from t ...

(MDF). He was the

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between 1990 and 1994. He was a member of the

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Personal life

His first wife was Judit Szegő. After their divorce he married Andrea Suján. He had a daughter, Júlia from his second marriage.

Death

He died on 3 July 2015 at the age of 90.Gyorgy Szabad: Historian who survived the Holocaust and took part in the talks that led to the end of Hungarian communism
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Honours and awards

Publications

*''A tatai és gesztesi Esterházy-uradalom'' (1957) *''Forradalom és kiegyezés válaszútján 1860–61'' (1967) *''Hungarian Political Trends… 1849–1867'' (1977) *''Kossuth politikai pályája'' (1977) *''Az önkényuralom kora 1849–1867'' (1979) *''Miért halt meg Teleki László?'' (1985) *''Magyarország önálló államiságának kérdése a polgári átalakulás korában'' (1986) *''A zsellérilletmény'' (1987) *''A kormány parlamenti felelősségének kérdése'' (1998) *''The Conceptualization of a Danubian Federation'' (1999) *''A parlamentáris kormányzati rendszer megteremtése, védelmezése, és kockáztatása Magyarországon 1848–1867'' (2000) *''Kossuth irányadása'' (2002) *''Egy történész „aforizmáiból”'' (2005)

References

*MTI Ki Kicsoda 2009, Magyar Távirati Iroda Zrt., Budapest, 2008, 1017. old., ISSN 1787-288X
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