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Artúr Köő

Artúr Köő is a historian, a researcher and a secondary school teacher. He was born in 1987 in Bánffyhunyad (Huedin) in Transylvania, Romania. He holds a PhD in history from the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary. He graduated with an MA in history and pedagogy from the University of Pécs. He has been teaching at a Reformed Church secondary school for more than ten years, and has recently been appointed Assistant Lecturer at the István Nemeskürty Faculty of Teacher Training of the Ludovika University of Public Service. He is married with two children.
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