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Blint Hman was a Hungarian scholar and politician who served as Minister of Religion and Education twice between 19321938 and between 19391942. His political rise to prominence came as part of a proGerman party, and he was considered the architect of laws that promoted the persecution of the countrys Jewish population in the 1930s and 40s. He died in prison in 1951 for his vote in the Hungarian parliament in favor of the invasion of the Soviet Union as part of the Axis alliance in World War II.

He was born into a Roman Catholic family. He finished his studies in Budapest. He started his career when he was still a student, working for the University Library of Budapest. He was appointed director of the National Szchnyi Library in 1922, and of the Hungarian National Museum in 1923, a position he held until 1932.

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