# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/istvan-kossa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:39:28.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/istvan-kossa"
name: "István Kossa"
slug: "istvan-kossa"
description: "István Kossa was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Finance twice: between 1949–1950 and between 1956 and 1957. After the secondary grammar school's accomplishment he worked in Budapest as a tram conductor. He joined the Social Democratic Party in 1923. He took a part in the trade union opposition's fights actively as member of the left-wing Tram Alliance. He was elected to the position of the general secretary of the alliance in 1933. In this same year he was arrested along with other members of the leadership. Kossa was taken to the Eastern Front in 1942, where he and many other prisoners joined the Soviet troops."
tagline: "Hungarian politician (1904-1965)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/KossaIstvan.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1904-03-31"
deathDate: "1965-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.268502666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Kossa"
    title: "István Kossa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "ايستڤان كوسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Kossa"
    title: "István Kossa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A7%91%E6%B2%99%C2%B7%E4%BC%8A%E6%96%AF%E7%89%B9%E4%B8%87"
    title: "科沙·伊斯特万"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Kossa"
    title: "István Kossa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kossa_Istv%C3%A1n"
    title: "Kossa István"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q748369"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump