Gyula Kornis
Hungarian Piarist, philosopher, educator, professor and politician
About Gyula Kornis
Lived 1885 – 1958 (aged 72). Gyula Kornis was a Hungarian politician, philosopher, university teacher, catholic priest, jurist and historian.
Gyula Kornis (originally Kremer Gyula; 22 December 1885 – 17 April 1958) was a Hungarian Piarist, philosopher, educator, professor and politician, who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives for a short time in 1938.
He had an important role in implementation of educational policy of Count Kuno von Klebelsberg, Minister of Religion and Education in the cabinet of István Bethlen in the 1920s. Kornis also served as interim President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1945, after the Second World War.
In the 1933/34 academic year, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University.
Works Education in Hungary, New York, 1932 Hungary and European Civilisation, Budapest, 1938
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Hungarian Piarist, philosopher, educator, professor and politician (1885-1958)
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Gyula Kornis was born on 22 December 1885 in Vác.
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Gyula Kornis died on 17 April 1958 in Budapest.
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Gyula Kornis was a politician, philosopher, university teacher, catholic priest, jurist and historian.
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