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Pál Teleki

1879 - 1941

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Count Pál János Ede Teleki de Szék (1 November 1879 – 3 April 1941) was a Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1920 to 1921 and from 1939 to 1941. He was also an expert in geography, a university professor, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and chief scout of the Hungarian Scout Association. He descended from an aristocratic family from Transylvania. Teleki tried to keep Hungary neutral during the early stages of the Second World War despite cooperating with Nazi Germany to regain Hungarian territory lost in the Treaty of Trianon. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pál Teleki is the 3,460th most popular politician (up from 3,551st in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 105th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Hungarian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pál Teleki ranks 3,460 out of 19,576Before him are Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator, Causantín mac Cináeda, Otto Wille Kuusinen, Duke of Zhou, and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. After him are Louis-Jules Trochu, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Fumimaro Konoe, Christopher II of Denmark, Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat, and Ebrahim Raisi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Pál Teleki ranks 29Before him are Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Léon Jouhaux, Francis Peyton Rous, Chen Duxiu, and Shunroku Hata. After him are Knud Rasmussen, Henri Giraud, Karl Bühler, Hans Lammers, E. M. Forster, and Ali of Hejaz. Among people deceased in 1941, Pál Teleki ranks 35Before him are Werner Sombart, Werner Mölders, Kurt Koffka, Henri Lebesgue, Ludwig Quidde, and Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli. After him are Sherwood Anderson, Günther Lütjens, Louis Chevrolet, Günther Prien, Annie Jump Cannon, and Christian Rakovsky.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Pál Teleki ranks 104 out of 1,077Before him are Theodore von Kármán (1881), Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917), Zoltán Czibor (1929), John G. Kemeny (1926), Samuel Aba (990), and George Pólya (1887). After him are Loránd Eötvös (1848), Peter Lax (1926), György Cziffra (1921), Stephen IV of Hungary (1133), László Sólyom (1942), and Ágnes Heller (1929).

Among POLITICIANS In Hungary

Among politicians born in Hungary, Pál Teleki ranks 37Before him are Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians (940), Irene of Hungary (1088), Ladislaus III of Hungary (1199), Violant of Hungary (1215), Ladislaus II of Hungary (1131), and Samuel Aba (990). After him are Stephen IV of Hungary (1133), László Sólyom (1942), Taksony of Hungary (931), Zoltán of Hungary (896), Pál Schmitt (1942), and Mihály Károlyi (1875).