Domokos Kosáry ( �domokoʃ ˈkoʃaːri 31 July 1913 – 15 November 2007) was a Hungarian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

and writer who served as president of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( hu, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA) is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. Its ma ...

from 1990 until 1996.

Biography

Kosáry was born in Selmecbánya (

Banská Štiavnica Banská Štiavnica (; german: Schemnitz; hu, Selmecbánya (Selmec), ) is a town in central Slovakia, in the middle of an immense caldera created by the collapse of an ancient volcano. For its size, the caldera is known as the Štiavnica Mountain ...

) and opposed the German occupation and collaboration with Hungary during World War II. He lost influence in Hungary after the war due to the

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takeover of the country for being too "

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". He was imprisoned for his opposition to

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following the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Kosáry was unanimously elected president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) in 1990 and was re-elected to a second three-year term in 1993. He led the effort to introduce newer, more democratic bye laws at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The new laws governing the HAS were enacted by the Parliament of Hungary in 1994. Kosáry died in

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on 15 November 2007 at the age of 95.

Selected works

*''A History of Hungary'' (as Dominic G. Kosary), Benjamin Franklin Bibliophile Society, 1941. *''Napoleon et la Hongrie'', Akademiai Kiado Budapest, 1979 *''The Press During the Hungarian Revoluton of l848-1849'', East European Monographs, 1987 *''Culture and Society in Eighteenth Century Hungary'', Corvina, 1987. *''Hungary and International Politics in 1848-1849'', East European Monographs, 2003

References

External links

The Guardian: Domokos Kosáry, The pre-eminent Hungarian historian of the 20th centuryHungarian Academy of Sciences: Former HAS President Dies at 95
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kosary, Domokos 1913 births 2007 deaths 20th-century Hungarian historians Hungarian people of World War II Historians of Hungary Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences