Ferenc Mádl

Ferenc Mádl  (; 29 January 1931 – 29 May 2011)Elhunyt Mádl Ferenc Index.hu was a Hungarian legal scholar, professor and politician. He was the second President of the third Republic of Hungary between 4 August 2000 and 5 August 2005. 

He was Minister of Education between 1993 and 1994 in the conservative cabinets of József Antall and Péter Boross. Mádl ran unsuccessfully for the position of President of Hungary in 1995, loosing to Árpád Göncz. Five years later he was elected President.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1992. His great-nephew is Péter Magyar, leader of the Respect and Freedom Party.

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