Bertalan Andrásfalvy Explained

Bertalan Andrásfalvy
Order:Minister of Education of Hungary
Term Start:23 May 1990
Term End:22 February 1993
Predecessor:Ferenc Glatz
Successor:Ferenc Mádl
Birth Date:1931 11, df=yes
Birth Place:Sopron, Hungary
Children:3
Profession:ethnographer, politician
Party:MDF

Bertalan Andrásfalvy (born 17 November 1931)[1] is a former Hungarian ethnographer and politician, who served as Minister of Education between 1990 and 1993. He joined the Hungarian Democratic Forum in 1988. He became a member of the National Assembly of Hungary in 1990. József Antall appointed him Minister of Education.[1]

He finished the changes requested by the transformation of regime in the Hungarian cultural life. Andrásfalvy left the party in 2005 and joined the National Forum which was founded by Sándor Lezsák who was expelled from the MDF. He lived in Pécs from 1960 to the 1990s when he moved to Hosszúhetény. He was a teacher in the Janus Pannonius University.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Pécs Lexikon I. (A–M). ed. Romváry, Ferenc, Pécs Lexikon Kulturális Nonprofit Kft. 2010, Pécs. p. 38;