About István Bibó
István Bibó (7 August 1911 – 10 May 1979) was a Hungarian lawyer, civil servant, politician and political theorist. == Life == Bibó was born into a petit-bourgeois Calvinist family in Szeged. His father, István Sr., was the director of the university library in Szeged, and his mother, Irén Graul, was the German-speaking daughter of a Reformed bishop. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy put his family into relative poverty and motivated him to study politics. He began his schooling in Budapest before attending the Piarist high school in Szeged. He then studied law at the Franz Joseph University in Szeged, where he befriended Ferenc Erdei and grew closer to Béla Reitzer, a high school friend. These friendships, both with future sociologists, sharpened his assessment of social inequality. Between 1933 and 1935, he undertook a study trip to western Europe; 1935, he received a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, in Geneva. Bibó returned to Hungary convinced of the need for a revolution which not only provided equal rights for all citizens, but also abolished the feudal inheritance of Hungary. In 1937, he was a signer of the radical Makó Manifesto.
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