Bálint Hóman
| Bálint Hóman | |
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| Minister of Religion and Education of Hungary | |
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In office 1 October 1932 – 14 May 1938 |
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| Prime Minister |
Gyula Gömbös Kálmán Darányi |
| Preceded by | Jenő Karafiáth |
| Succeeded by | Pál Teleki |
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In office 16 February 1939 – 3 July 1942 |
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| Prime Minister |
Pál Teleki László Bárdossy Miklós Kállay |
| Preceded by | Pál Teleki |
| Succeeded by | Jenő Szinyei Merse |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
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In office 27 October 1932 – 29 March 1945 |
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| Constituency | Székesfehérvár |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
29 December 1885 Budapest, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 2 June 1951 (aged 65) Vác, People's Republic of Hungary |
| Political party | Party of National Unity, Party of Hungarian Life |
| Profession | politician, historian |
Bálint Hóman (29 December 1885 – 2 June 1951) was a Hungarian scholar and politician who served as Minister of Religion and Education twice: between 1932–1938 and between 1939–1942. His political rise to prominence came as part of a pro-Nazi party, and he was "considered the architect of laws that promoted the persecution of the country's Jewish population in the 1930s and '40s." He died in prison in 1951 for his vote in the Hungarian parliament in favor of the invasion of the Soviet Union as part of the Axis alliance in World War II.
He was born into a Roman Catholic family. He finished his studies in Budapest. He started his career when he was still a student, working for the University Library of Budapest. He was appointed director of the National Széchényi Library in 1922, and of the Hungarian National Museum in 1923, a position he held until 1932.
Hóman produced several serious scholarly works. The centre of his research was the history of the Hungarian nation during the Middle Ages. Initially he dealt with economic history, social history and the auxiliary sciences of history. He wrote about Hungarian towns during the Árpád era, social classes, the first state tax and about the Magyar tribes who arrived to the Carpathian Basin. He authored a massive work entitled History of the Hungarian Currency 1000–1325, in which he systematized the Hungarian currency during the Middle Ages' chronology, metrology and history. His other key solo publication was The Finance, Affairs and Economic Policy of the Kingdom of Hungary During the Reign of Charles Robert.
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