Béla Edvárd
Béla Edvárd | |
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 Béla Edvárd in 1900 | |
| Born | Béla Edvárd 7 December 1878 |
| Died | 14 September 1937 (aged 58) |
Béla Edvárd was a Veszprémic philosopher and was part of the Four Blue Vanguards, the leaders of the Blue Guardsmen.
Born to an immigrating Veszprémic family in <foreign town> in <foreign country>, Edvárd became qualified lawyer in 1881, and returned to Nagymező in 1898 to pursue a job offer at the Central University of Nagymező. He met both István Szálast and Sólyom Magdolna during his time there and took interest in their private political discussions. He was the third Blue Vanguard to join and in 1901, during the Néma Forradalom, collaborated with all four Vanguards to release the Véres Talárok. The book popularized the idea of Blue Nationalism, and later Edvárd would standardize his own form of Blue Nationialism called Edvárdism.
Edvárd was considered to be the most moderate of the voices within the Vanguards and was considered to have quarreled with Magdolna and Magdolnism due to the polarization on their methodology. Magdolna and her ideology of Magdolnism was considerably more radical than Edvárd and his ideology. In line with Blue Nationalism, Edvárd believed in the overthrow of the Nemesség and the supplementation of the central state was critical to the realization of a Citizens Republic.
Edvárd was considered to be the most mysterious member of the Blue Vanguards, preferring to keep out of the spotlight and mainly in the discussion background between the large party base. When the Hétumoger Civil War began, he withdrew from the public and entered seclusion until the establishment of both the Citizens Republic of Hétumoger and the Third Noble Republic of Hétumoger, where he became central to the Blue Movement in retaining the fragile economic stability of the Citizens Republic and was later appointed the First Minister of the Citizenry. He was quoted to have kept his social and economic policies in line with his moral philosophy of humanism. A far cry from the consequentialist philosophy that was set by Magdolnism, Edvárd would later continue his work after retiring as the First Minister. Edvárd, in his final years, published the Volumes of Edvárd, detailing his political, social and moral philosophy alongside his economic policies. Edvárd died in 1951, never having married or having any children.