Education
University of Szeged.
historian political scientist politician university professor
University of Szeged.
During the Hungarian Revolution he acted as the Minister of State for the Hungarian National Government. When the Soviets invaded to crush the rebellious government, he was the last Minister left at his post in the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest. Rather than evacuate, he stayed in the building and wrote his famous proclamation, "Foreign Freedom and Truth", as he awaited arrest.
Bibó was arrested on 23 May 1957 and sentenced to life imprisonment on 2 August 1958 but released in the 1963 amnesty.
Bibó received a law degree from the Franz Joseph University and later taught there. He also received a Doctor of Philosophy from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, in Geneva.
The Crisis of Hungarian Democracy. Bibo Prize founded in Boston (1980) 5000 Forint coin issued by the National Bank of Hungary (2011) The Budapest Eötvös Loránd University named a special honors society/extracurricular studies program after Bibo – the Bibo Istvan Szakkollegium.
The society is open to students of law or political sciences who pass a rigorous entrance examination
Hungarian Academy of Sciences.