Gyula Ortutay

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Gyula Ortutay

Minister of Religion and Education of Hungary
In office 14 March 1947 – 25 February 1950
Preceded by	Dezső Keresztury
Succeeded by	József Darvas
Personal details
Born	(1910-03-24)24 March 1910 Szabadka, Austria-Hungary
Died	22 March 1978(1978-03-22) (aged 67) Budapest, People's Republic of Hungary
Political party	FKGP
Profession	ethnographer, politician

The native form of this personal name is Ortutay Gyula. This article uses the Western name order.

Gyula Ortutay (24 March 1910 – 22 March 1978) was a Hungarian ethnographer and politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education between 1947 and 1950.

Biography

Early life

Born in Szabadka (now: Subotica, Serbia) to a Catholic petty bourgeois family. His parents were István Ortutay journalist, editor of the Szegedi Napló and Ilona Borsodi. He finished his secondary school studies at the piarists in Szeged. After that he attended the Franz Joseph University from 1928. His psychology teacher was Hildebrand Dezső Várkonyi. Soon he was making left-wing friends such as Miklós Radnóti, Gábor Tolnai, Dezső Baróti, Ferenc Erdei, György Buday and Viola Tomori.

He married to Zsuzsa Kemény, who served as chairperson of the Hungarian Dance Association from 1948, in 1938. They have three children: Mária (psychologist), Tamás (ceramist) and Zsuzsanna (district nurse).

Political career

He got into contact with the communist intellectuals (László Orbán, Gyula Kállai, Ferenc Hont) in the end of the 1930s. but Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky had the largest effect on him. From 1942 he participated in the antifascist movements. In the next year he joined to the Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party (FKGP). He was Secretary-General of the National Council of The People's Patriotic Front.

References

Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon

Political offices
Preceded by Dezső Keresztury	Minister of Religion and Education 1947–1950	Succeeded by József Darvas

v t e Ministers of Education of Hungary since 1848

Revolution of 1848	J. Eötvös Batthyány Horváth

Kingdom of Hungary	J. Eötvös Szlávy Pauler Trefort Baross Csáky L. Eötvös Wlassics Berzeviczy G. Lukács (*1865) Tost Apponyi Székely Zichy Jankovich Apponyi Zichy

Transition period	Lovászy Juhász Nagy Kunfi G. Lukács (*1885) Pogány (opposed by P. Teleki) Garbai Imre Huszár

Regency	Haller Jó. Vass Klebelsberg Ernszt Karafiáth Hóman P. Teleki Hóman Szinyei Merse Antal Rakovszky

Transition period	Rajniss Szálasi G. Teleki Keresztury

Communist Hungary	Ortutay Darvas Erdey-Grúz Kónya Kállai Benke Ilku Nagy Polinszky Pozsgay Köpeczi Czibere Glatz

Republic of Hungary	Andrásfalvy Mádl Fodor Magyar Pokorni Pálinkás Magyar Hiller

Ministers of Culture	Révai Darvas G. Lukács (*1885) Orbán Pozsgay Hámori Rockenbauer Görgey Hiller Bozóki

Minister of Religion	Já. Vass

Minister of Higher Education	Erdey-Grúz

Minister of National/Human Resources	Réthelyi Balog

Authority control	VIAF: 39752542 ISNI: 0000 0001 1057 5893 BNF: cb12018701v

Persondata
Name	Ortutay, Gyula
Alternative names
Short description	Hungarian politician
Date of birth	24 March 1910
Place of birth	Szabadka, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	22 March 1978
Place of death	Budapest, People's Republic of Hungary

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