Ferenc Mádl
| Ferenc Mádl | |
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| President of Hungary | |
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In office 4 August 2000 – 5 August 2005 |
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| Prime Minister |
Viktor Orbán Péter Medgyessy Ferenc Gyurcsány |
| Preceded by | Árpád Göncz |
| Succeeded by | László Sólyom |
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| Born |
29 January 1931 Bánd, Hungary |
| Died | 29 May 2011 (aged 80) Budapest, Hungary |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Dalma Mádl |
| Children | András |
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Ferenc Mádl [ˈfɛrɛnt͡s ˈmaːdl̩] (29 January 1931 – 29 May 2011) was a Hungarian legal scholar, professor and politician, who served as the second President of the third Republic of Hungary, between 4 August 2000 and 5 August 2005. Prior to that he had been minister without portfolio between 1990 and 1993 then Minister of Education between 1993 and 1994 in the conservative cabinets of József Antall and Péter Boross. Mádl ran unsuccessfully for the position of President of Hungary in 1995, defeated by Árpád Göncz. Five years later he was elected President as the candidate of the governing conservative coalition.
Mádl was awarded a diploma from the Faculty of Politics and Law of the Eötvös Loránd University in 1955. Between 1961–1963 he studied at the faculty of international comparative law of the University of Strasbourg. He was awarded an academic degree as candidate of politics and law in 1964, and he received a doctorate in 1974 with his dissertation "The company and economic competition in the law of European economic integration". In 1987 he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and then in 1993 he was made a full member of the Academy. In his scientific activities he has primarily dealt with matters of civil law, private international law and legal problems related to international economic relations, as well as European law.
He was secretary of the Scientific Qualifying Committee between 1984–1990, from 1985 he has been a member of the Harvard Academy of International Commercial Law, from 1988 a member of the steering committee of the Rome international institute (UNIDROIT) for unifying private law, while from 1989 he was appointed as a central judge on the Washington-based international selected court for states and foreign investors. Besides the aforementioned positions he held he also assisted in the editing of several scientific journals and the work of scientific organizations, and was a member of several international academies. Mádl lectured at numerous foreign universities as guest professor, and is the author of several books and studies.
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