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Sándor Keresztes

Hungarian politician and diplomat (1919-2013)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ1107437 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dr. Sándor Keresztes (9 March 1919 – 14 August 2013) was a Hungarian diplomat and jurist, who served as president of the Christian Democratic People's Party (1989–1990) and Member of Parliament (1947–1948, 1990, 1994–1998).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sándor Keresztes” is hungarian politician and diplomat (1919-2013). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sándor, Keresztes and Hungarian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1919, 2013, 1989, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1919-03-09. For this dossier, Sándor, Keresztes and Hungarian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “hungarian politician and diplomat (1919-2013)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1107437. VIAF identifies the subject as 107927604. The Library of Congress control number is n2010012403. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1919, 2013, 1989 and 1990.

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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sándor Keresztes” 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.