Count Béla Serényi de Kis-serény (16 June 1866 – 14 October 1919) was a Hungarian

Hungary

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 politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture twice: between 1910–1913 and in 1918.

He was born into a Hungarian noble family in Pest. His parents were Count László Serényi, a landowner in Putnok

Putnok

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 and Countess Ludmilla Bubna de Littlicz. He finished his studies in the Theresianum

Theresianum

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, Vienna

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 and studied law in Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

. He was a member of the House of Magnates, where he supported the government's religion politics in his speeches. Later he politicized in the House of Representatives. He served as Minister of Trade from 1917 to 1918. Serényi left the Party of National Work in 1916.