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Béla Király

1912 - 2009

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Béla Király (14 April 1912 – 4 July 2009) was a Hungarian army officer before, during, and after World War II. After the war, he was sentenced to death under the Soviet-allied regime, but was later released. After his release, he commanded the National Guard in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He then fled to the United States, where he became an academic historian. He returned to Hungary after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc and was elected a member of Hungarian Parliament. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Béla Király is the 3,144th most popular writer (down from 2,660th in 2019), the 358th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 299th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Hungarian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Béla Király ranks 3,144 out of 7,302. Before him are Richard Curtis, Roberto Calasso, Jean Desmarets, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, and Walter Hasenclever. After him are Rahul Sankrityayan, Olaudah Equiano, Juan Fernández de Heredia, Edward Gorey, Eduard Vilde, and D. R. Bendre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Béla Király ranks 173. Before him are Kaneto Shindo, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Bill Roberts, Alfred Schwarzmann, and Barbara Hutton. After him are Arne Brustad, Lev Kopelev, Leslie Johnson, Andre Norton, Claude Pompidou, and Ernst Lehner. Among people deceased in 2009, Béla Király ranks 154. Before him are Venetia Burney, Ken Annakin, Alda Merini, Jim Carroll, Savka Dabčević-Kučar, and Jim Rohn. After him are Robert Anderson, Peter Shirayanagi, Aram Tigran, Horst Szymaniak, Zequinha, and Gianna Maria Canale.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Béla Király ranks 358 out of 1,077. Before him are Árpád Weisz (1896), Charles Vidor (1900), József Eötvös (1813), Rózsa Péter (1905), László Polgár (1946), and Vilmos Aba-Novák (1894). After him are Péter Szondi (1929), Angéla Németh (1946), István Kertész (1929), Géza Gárdonyi (1863), Bertalan Farkas (1949), and Lajos Werkner (1883).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Béla Király ranks 37. Before him are Mihály Vörösmarty (1800), Kató Lomb (1909), Miklós Radnóti (1909), Antal Szerb (1901), Simon of Kéza (1250), and László Polgár (1946). After him are Péter Szondi (1929), Géza Gárdonyi (1863), Mihály Babits (1883), Tibor Déry (1894), Gyula Krúdy (1878), and Ferenc Kölcsey (1790).

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