István Bibó

When the Soviets invaded to crush the rebellious government, he was the last Minister left at his post in the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest.

Rather than evacuate, he stayed in the building and wrote his famous proclamation, "For Freedom and Truth", as he awaited arrest.

[1] Bibó was arrested on 23 May 1957 and sentenced to life imprisonment on 2 August 1958 but released in the 1963 amnesty.

Bibó received a law degree from the Franz Joseph University and later taught there.

[2] In 1935, he received a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, in Geneva.

István Bibó (1935)
Grave of István Bibó in Óbuda Cemetery
Bust of István Bibó by sculptor Géza Széri-Varga (2005) on the banks of the Danube in Budapest near the Hungarian Parliament