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Art historian. Studied at ELTE, Budapest, at the art history and history departments between 1980 and 1986. Since 1988, he has worked as a museologist; from 1994 he is the main museologist for the Contemporary Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery (MNG). He is the editor of Balkon contemporary art magazine since 1997, and a member of the Hungarian section of AICA from 1999. His main field of research is 20^th-century and contemporary art, but he is interested in film and motion theatre as well.

Szécsényi Mihály is an achivist, historian. He was born is September 4, 1955. He received his [MA-equivalent] degree in history and geography in 1978 at the Eötvös Lóránt University in Budapest and he completed his PhD in history at Eötvös Lóránt University. His main fields of interest are the social history of Hungary, the history of prostitution, history of right wing parties 1918-1939 and political transiton, and the developement and functioning the new parties and political movement from the second part of 20th century.

István Szépfalusi (1932–2000) was a Hungarian Lutheran clergyman and professor. He was born István Seligmann in Budapest. He studied at the Lutheran Grammar School in Budapest. In 1948, after he passed an exam to be an assistant jeweller, he decided to become a Lutheran priest. He became a Lutheran clergyman in 1955, and then he emigrated to Austria. On 5 November 1956, he became the national caretaker of refugees of the Austrian Lutheran Church. For decades he helped immigrants from the Carpathian Basin. In 1960, he was a founding member of the Bornemissza Péter Society in Vienna. Until 1982, he served as the secretary of the European Protestant Hungarian Free University. The autobiographies of evangelical bishop Lajos Ordass were published with the cooperation of István Szépfalusi.