György Schöpflin died at the age of eighty-one. Fidesz EP representative György Hölvényi reported the tragic news on his Facebook page.
"Professor, dear Gyuri! Thanks for the long conversations. God bless you, rest in peace!" – Hölvényi said goodbye in his post. The professor would have turned 82 in five days.
György Schöpflin was born in 1939 in Budapest. Aladár Schöpflin and the Gyula Schöpflin . In 1950, he left with his family for Great Britain, where he finished his schooling. In 1957, he was admitted to the Faculty of Law at the University of Glasgow, where he graduated in 1962, and then studied for a year at the College of Europe in Bruges.
In 1963, he became a staff member of Chatham House, a research institute dealing with international relations in London, and then, between 1967 and 1976, he became a BBC journalist. At that time, he was a professor of East and Central European political history at the London School of Economics, and in 1994 he became a professor at the Institute of Slavic and East European Studies at the University of London. Between 1998 and 2004, he was a Jean Monnet professor. His research area was nationalism and national identity, as well as the issue and relationship system of national minorities.
György Schöpflin joined Fidesz in 2003. In 2004, he ran on the party's European Parliament list and won a mandate. He was a member of the European Parliament until 2019. He was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and an alternate member of the Constitutional Affairs Committee.
Source: Mandarin
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