Béla Edvárd

Béla Edvárd
Béla Edvárd in 1900
Born	Béla Edvárd (1878-12-07)7 December 1878
Died	14 September 1937(1937-09-14) (aged 58)

Béla Edvárd was a Hetumogye philosopher, political theorist and journalist who was heavily involved in the development of Orthodox Republicanism and the overarching New Republican movement during the Second Political Odrodzenie. He contributed to the writing of the Testament of the States, which laid much of the foundation work for Orthodox Republicanism. His most well known independent work was the Political Alignment of the Orthodox Republic, which detailed many of his observations and analysises of other contributers to the political theory around Orthodox Republicanism. It also described the similarities and the alignments between Orthodox Republicanism and other rising ideologies within the New Republican Movement, including the Blue Cross Movement and Cheruschel-Orange Democracy. He was noted for his scathing criticisms of other political ideologies and grounded institutions that he believed would lead to a redivergence. He is considered to be one of the most important and influential political philosophers of Vistulzka and one of the earliest modern proponents of progressivism and social democracy.

Originally born in Nagymező, Baranya Voivodeship, Edvárd attended the University of Vistulzka-Ásotthalom, having been awarded a doctorate in political philosophy. Much of his political influence came from István Szálast, one of the contributors of Common good government during the First Political Odrodzenie.