Pál Szende (born as Pál Schwarz, 7 February 1879 – 15 July 1934) was a Hungarian politician, who served as

Minister of Finance A ministry of finance is a ministry or other government agency in charge of government finance, fiscal policy, and financial regulation. It is headed by a finance minister, an executive or cabinet position . A ministry of finance's portfolio ...

between 1918 and 1919. From 1904 he worked as a lawyer. He participated in the radical political movement along with

Oszkár Jászi Oszkár Jászi (born Oszkár Jakubovits; 2 March 1875 – 13 February 1957), also known in English as Oscar Jászi, was a Hungarian social scientist, historian, and politician. Early life Oszkár Jászi was born in Nagykároly on March 2, 18 ...

. After the establishment of the

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he lived in

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. Szende took part in the

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after that he escaped to

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then

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, where he died. Pál Szende is buried in the city of

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, Romania.

Works

* ''Magyar háborus adópolitika'' ungarian war by tax policy 1917 * ''Krise der mitteleuropaischen Revolution'' he crisis of the Central European revolution 1921 * 'Soziologische Gedanken zur Relativitätstheorie' ociological thought to relativity theory ''Die neue Rundschau'', Vol. 32, Frankfurt a. Main 1921, p. 1086 * ''Verhüllung und Enthüllung: der Kampf der Ideologien in der Geschichte'' oncealment and revelation: the struggle of ideologies in history Leipzig, 1922. Partial French translation in Gabel et al., ''L'aliénation aujourd'hui'', Paris, 1974, pp. 319–49. * 'Wissenschaft und Autorität', ''Der Kampf'', Vol. 15, No. 9/10 (1922), p. 302 * 'Das System der Wissenschaften und die Gesellschaftsordnung', ''Kölner Vierteljahreshefte für Sozialwissenschaften'', Vol. 2, No. 4 (1922), p. 7 * 'Eine soziologische Theorie der Abstraktion' sociological theory of abstraction ''Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik'', April 1923 * ''Der Faschismus in Europa'', ''Der Kampf'', 22:4 (1929), p. 200 * 'Bergson: der Metaphysiker der Gegenrevolution' ergson: the metaphysician of the counter- revolution ''Die Gesellschaft'', Vol. 2 (1930), pp. 552ff. * 'Nationales Recht und Klassenrecht. – Beiträge aus der ungarischen Rechts- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte', Festschrift für Carl Grünberg. Zum 70. Geburtstag, Leipzig, 1932, pp. 445–478 * 'Das Zeitalter der Denkfaulheit' he age of intellectual laziness ''Der Kampf'', Vol. 26, No. 11 (1933), pp. 453–55 * ''Demaskierung: Die Rolle der Ideologien in der Geschichte'' nmasking: the role of ideology in history 1970.

References

Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon
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