Miklós Baranyai (1934–1997) was a Hungarian physician and politician,

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(MP) for

Hatvan Hatvan ( German: ''Hottwan)'' is a town in Heves County, Hungary. Hatvan is the Hungarian word for "sixty". It is the county's third most populous town following Eger and Gyöngyös. Etymology Hatvan is the Hungarian word for "sixty". It is a com ...

(

Heves County Heves county (, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest (county), Pest, Nógrád (county), Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and ...

Constituency IV) between 1990 and 1994.

Biography

Baranyai was born in 1934 at

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. He studied in the

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Grammar School of the

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until 1948 when the school was nationalized and the monastic order was disbanded. As a result, he finished his secondary studies at the Könyves Kálmán Grammar School. He graduated as a physician from the

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. He participated in the

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. He transported wounded people after the protests on 23 October 1956. He started his medical career in

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at the county hospital. In 1961 he was relocated to

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as a general practitioner due to his political activity in 1956. He lived in

since 1966. He served as a Chief Medical in the

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Hospital.''Parlamenti Almanach 1990''. p. 80. He was a 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 elected Member of Parliament for Hatvan during the first democratic parliamentary election in 1990. He was appointed Vice Chairman of the Committee on Social, Family Affairs and Health. However he suffered a serious accident when he fell out from the window of his flat in August 1990. Baranyai went into a coma, and had never recovered. Despite his incapacity, he remained MP until the next parliamentary election in 1994. He also held the position of Committee Vice Chairman until 9 November 1992. He died in 1997.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baranyai, Miklos 1934 births 1997 deaths Hungarian general practitioners Hungarian Democratic Forum politicians Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1990–1994) Accidental deaths from falls Accidental deaths in Hungary People from Gödöllő 20th-century Hungarian physicians