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Teleki, Pál
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- Téléki, Pál
- János Ede Teleki de Szék, Count Pál
- de Teleki, Comte Paul
- Dr. gróf széki Teleki, Pál
- Teleki von Szék, Graf Paul
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1879–1941
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Born into an aristocratic Hungarian family, Pál Teleki studied law and political science at the University of Budapest and completed his PhD at the Royal Hungarian Academy of Economy in 1903. An expert on geography and ethnography, he became a university professor at Budapest as well as a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1905, he was elected a member of the Hungarian parliament. After having fought in the First World War, he participated at the 1919 Peace Conference in Paris. Teleki was a supporter of the Scout movement and served as Chief of the Hungarian Scout Association during the 1920s. He served as Prime Minister from 1920 until 1921, and again from 1939 until 1941. From May 1938 until February 1939 he also served as Minister of Education. Desperate about his foreign policy options after Hitler’s plan to conquer Yugoslavia, he committed suicide in April 1941.
Beginning in 1934, Teleki was involved in the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation's (ICIC) project on interviewing prominent intellectuals. From 1937 until 1939, he was a member of the ICIC. In his capacity as Director of the Political Science Institute of the Hungarian Statistical Institute, he also served as President of the Hungarian Coordinating Committee on International Studies which gathered Hungarian experts for the International Studies Conference (ISC), a major conference organised by the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation. The Hungarian delegation participated at the ISC beginning from 1937.
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Created by Jan Stöckmann 10-08-2015. French translation by Alexandre Coutelle, 19-11-2015.
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- UNESCO Archives, Archival Group 1: IIIC, F.I.2
- J.-J. Renoliet, L’UNESCO oubliée: la Société des Nations et la coopération intellectuelle, 1919–1946 (Paris, 1999)
- http://global.britannica.com/biography/Pal-Grof-Teleki