Ferenc Gyurcsány plagiarism controversy Ferenc Gyurcsány plagiarism controversy The Ferenc Gyurcsány plagiarism controversy refers to the allegations of plagiarism concerning the 1984 college thesis of Ferenc Gyurcsány, Prime Minister of Hungary between 2004 and 2009, that broke in spring 2012, after the resignation of President Pál Schmitt as the result of the Pál Schmitt academic misconduct controversy. Gyurcsány graduated from the Teacher's Training Faculty of the Janus Pannonius University, now University of Pécs, in 1984, as an elementary school teacher of biology and technology, with a 35-page college thesis entitled "A Balaton-felvidék szőlészete és borászata" (The viticulture and oenology of the Balaton-highlands). In an
Records of Prime Ministers of Hungary March 1894, a total of 44 years, 10 months and 19 days. In recent years, the Prime Minister who lived the longest after leaving office was András Hegedüs, whose term ended on 24 October 1956; he died on 23 October 1999, 42 years, 11 months and 29 days later. The Prime Minister who lived the shortest period after leaving office (excluding those who died in office) was Ferenc Szálasi, whose term ended on 28 March 1945. He was executed on 12 March 1946, less than a year later. Lajos Batthyány resigned on 2 October 1848. After the defeat of Hungarian