Dr. László Pósán (born 20 September 1965) is a Hungarian historian, politician,

member of the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the represen ...

(MP) for

Debrecen Debrecen ( ; ; ; ) is Hungary's cities of Hungary, second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain Regions of Hungary, region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar County. A city with county rights, it was the large ...

( Hajdú-Bihar County Constituency I then II) since 1998.

Biography

He finished Krúdy Gyula Secondary School at

Nyíregyháza Nyíregyháza (, ) is a city with county rights in northeastern Hungary and the county capital of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. With a population of 118,001, it is the seventh-largest city in Hungary and the second largest in the Northern Great ...

in 1984. In 1990 he graduated from Kossuth Lajos University of Debrecen as a teacher of

Hungarian language Hungarian, or Magyar (, ), is an Ugric language of the Uralic language family spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighboring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Out ...

literature Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, Play (theatre), plays, and poetry, poems. It includes both print and Electroni ...

and

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

. From 1990 he was an assistant lecturer and from 1996 a lecturer of the Institute of History and the Department of Middle Ages and Early Modern Age History at Kossuth Lajos University of Debrecen. He was one of the editors of the journal ''Debreceni Szemle'' ("Debrecen Review") from 1993 to 1998. He received a

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

degree in 2000 and became an associate professor. Since 1992 he has been the secretary of Ady Academy Foundation and since 1998, secretary of the Apáczai Foundation. His area of interest for teaching and research is the military history of the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ...

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, especially Medieval

Prussia Prussia (; ; Old Prussian: ''Prūsija'') was a Germans, German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussia (region), Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, ...

crusade The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and at times directed by the Papacy during the Middle Ages. The most prominent of these were the campaigns to the Holy Land aimed at reclaiming Jerusalem and its surrounding t ...

Teutonic Order The Teutonic Order is a religious order (Catholic), Catholic religious institution founded as a military order (religious society), military society in Acre, Israel, Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Order of Brothers of the German House of Sa ...

and their role in the

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946 and was a key part of the Habsburg monarchy from 1526-1918. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the Coro ...

. He joined

Fidesz Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (; ) is a national-conservative political party in Hungary led by Viktor Orbán. It has increasingly identified as illiberal. Originally formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young Democrats () as ...

in 1992. He has headed the Debrecen local branch of the party since 1997. In the course of the development of the organisational structure of Fidesz-Hungarian Civic Union in 2003 he was charged with heading of his constituency, Debrecen I. He was elected MP for Debrecen in the parliamentary election in 1998. From 1998 to 2002 he worked for the Foreign Affairs Committee and he was deputy member of the Hungarian delegation to

NATO Parliamentary Assembly The NATO Parliamentary Assembly serves as the consultative interparliamentary organisation for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It consists of delegates from the parliaments of the 32 NATO member countries as well as from associate ...

. He was re-elected as an MP in the first round of the elections on 7 April 2002. He secured a seat in Parliament in the 2006 general election. He was elected member of the Committee on Education and Science on 30 May 2006. He defended his mandate during the 2010 parliamentary election and became Vice Chairman of the Committee on Education, Science and Research on 14 May 2010. He was also appointed a member of the Committee on Health Affairs and later Committee on Audit Office and Budget. He is the Chairman of the Committee on Culture since 2018.

Personal life

He is married. His wife is Annamária Pósánné Rácz. They have a daughter, Zsuzsanna.DR. PÓSÁN LÁSZLÓ - FIDESZ - 2015-ÖS VAGYONNYILATKOZAT - DEBRECEN, January 25,2016
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References

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