Szilárd Demeter

Writer, rock musician, and President of the Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Center. He was born in 1976 in Székelyudvarhely (Szeklerland, Romania). In 1995, he graduated from the Benedek Elek Teacher Training College and in 1999 he obtained a degree in philosophy from the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. He has edited cultural and professional journals and, until 2014, he worked as a lecturer at Partium Christian University in Oradea and as the director of the university’s scientific publishing house. From 2007 to 2014, he also led the Transylvanian office of Bishop László Tőkés, Member of the European Parliament. In 2014, he moved to Budapest, where he became a researcher at the Századvég Foundation. From 2018 to 2024, he served as the Director-General of the Petőfi Literary Museum, and since March 2024, he has been the President of the Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Center. He is the author of numerous articles, opinion pieces, and a dozen books. He is married with one child.