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Mihály Dömötör

Hungarian politician (1875-1962)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ371587 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dr. Mihály Dömötör (1 October 1875 in Bíňovce – 2 February 1962) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Interior Minister for three months in 1920. His most famous order was the 1550/1920, which dissolved the freemason companies.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mihály Dömötör” as hungarian politician (1875-1962). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1875, 1962, 1920, 1550—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1875-10-01. The account is most persuasive where Mihály, Dömötör and Hungarian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as hungarian politician (1875-1962). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q371587. VIAF identifies the subject as 16736409. The Library of Congress control number is nb2003053610. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1875, 1962, 1920 and 1550.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Mihály Dömötör”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Mihály Dömötör primary sources, Mihály Dömötör archive and Mihály research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Mihály Dömötör”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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This entry incorporates text from “Mihály Dömötör” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.