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Máté Zalka

1896 - 1937

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Béla Frankl (23 April 1896 – 11 June 1937), known by the name Máté Zalka, was a Hungarian writer, soldier, and revolutionary. He fought in the Royal Hungarian Army during the First World War and was captured by the Imperial Russian Army. Subsequently, while a Russian prisoner of war, he came under the influence of Bolshevism and fought during the Russian Civil War. After participating in various other conflicts for the Soviet Union, Zalka moved to Spain and fought in the Spanish Civil War as a general for the International Brigades. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Máté Zalka is the 10,365th most popular politician (down from 9,630th in 2019), the 306th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 295th in 2019) and the 90th most popular Hungarian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Máté Zalka ranks 10,364 out of 19,576Before him are Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Dan Sullivan, Constantine III of Scotland, Mario Scelba, and Liu Cong. After him are Sophie of Brandenburg, Yevgenia Bosch, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Léon Delacroix, Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and Henriette d'Angeville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Máté Zalka ranks 123Before him are Józef Czapski, Hans Cramer, Johannes Kleiman, Jacques Duclos, Marguerite Laugier, and André Hunebelle. After him are Jessie Royce Landis, Na Hye-sok, Anandamayi Ma, Eduardo Lonardi, Salim Ali, and Ieronim Uborevich. Among people deceased in 1937, Máté Zalka ranks 87Before him are Joseph Taylor Robinson, Alikhan Bukeikhanov, Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, Alexander Shliapnikov, Elihu Thomson, and William Sealy Gosset. After him are Akhmet Baitursynov, Bekir Çoban-zade, Otto Hölder, Ieronim Uborevich, Adolf Erman, and Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Máté Zalka ranks 306 out of 1,077Before him are László Mednyánszky (1852), Zoltán Fábri (1917), Dezső Novák (1939), Moritz Kaposi (1837), Elizabeth of Hungary, Queen of Serbia (1255), and Ervin László (1932). After him are László Benedek (1905), Miklós Németh (1946), Ferenc Szusza (1923), Julio Baghy (1891), Miklós Ybl (1814), and Géza Toldi (1909).

Among POLITICIANS In Hungary

Among politicians born in Hungary, Máté Zalka ranks 90Before him are Károly Grósz (1930), Ferenc Münnich (1886), Sándor Garbai (1879), Béla Imrédy (1891), Katalin Novák (1977), and Béni Kállay (1839). After him are Ferenc Gyurcsány (1961), Gyula Károlyi (1871), Johann Löwenthal (1810), Gyula Peidl (1873), Sigismund Rákóczi (1544), and Elizabeth Granowska (1372).