Béla Jankovich

Béla Jankovich


Minister of Religion and Education of Hungary
In office 26 February 1913 – 15 June 1917
Preceded by	János Zichy
Succeeded by	Albert Apponyi
Personal details
Born	(1865-04-29)29 April 1865 Pest, Kingdom of Hungary
Died	5 August 1939(1939-08-05) (aged 74) Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Political party	Party of National Work
Profession	politician, economist

The native form of this personal name is vadasi és jeszeniczei Jankovich Béla. This article uses the Western name order.

Béla Jankovich de Vadas et Jeszenicze (29 April 1865 – 5 August 1939) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education between 1913 and 1917. He studied in the Theresianum of Vienna, University of Budapest, University College London and Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. Between 1891 and 1893 he travelled around the world, he went to the United States, to China and Japan. After his returning to home he farmed on his possessions of Tésa.

Jankovich became a member of the House of Representatives in 1910 in the colours of the Party of National Work. Between 1911 and 1913 he served as second deputy speaker of the lower house. He was appointed privy councillor in 1912. Before his ministerial appointment he worked as state secretary of the Ministry of Religion and Education for less than two weeks. Then László Lukács appointed him minister on 26 February 1913. Jankovich held this position until the resignation of the István Tisza cabinet.

More educational reforms are connected his name, onto the defiance for the First World War and the economic crisis. His laws directed the state, denominational and privacy kindergartens' legal status. He extended the free education: school councils were created, which checked the efficiency of the teaching, the school attendance and the compulsory education. The ministry organized the secondary schools with a specialisation in the sciences. They acknowledged the Islamic religion legally. Jankovich used mathematical methods as an economist between the first ones to economic analyses. He was corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

References

Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon

Political offices
Preceded by János Zichy	Minister of Religion and Education 1913–1917	Succeeded by Albert Apponyi

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

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