Daniel Rapant (17 April 1897

Holíč Holíč (until 1946 "Holič", german: Weißkirchen (an der March) / Holitsch, hu, Holics) is a town in western Slovakia. History The oldest archaeological findings in the area date from the Neolithic, and there are findings from the Bronze Age, ...

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– 17 April 1988 Bratislava,

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) was a Slovak historian, archivist and university teacher.

Life

He graduated in

Skalica Skalica (german: Skalitz, hu, Szakolca, Latin: ''Sakolcium'') is the largest town in Skalica District in western Slovakia in the Záhorie region. Located near the Czech border, Skalica has a population of around 15,000. Etymology The name is de ...

in 1917 then he had studied history and Slavic studies at the

Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague The Faculty of Arts, Charles University ( cs, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy), is one of the original four faculties of Charles University in Prague. When founded, it was named the Faculty of the Liberal Arts or the Artistic Faculty. The f ...

(1918–1922). At the same time he had studied also at the State Archivist School in Prague (1919–1922). After completing his studies in

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, he studied at

Paris-Sorbonne University Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; french: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universit ...

. In 1924 he became the main county archivist in Bratislava. He worked as a professor of the Czechoslovak history at

Comenius University Comenius University in Bratislava ( sk, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave) is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is name ...

(1933 – extraordinary professor, 1938 – ordinary professor). In 1938–1939 he was the head of Czechoslovak-Hungarian Commission for Minority Questions. In 1945 he became rector of

. In 1945–1947 he was a dean of the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University.

Selected works

* ''Asimilácia odrodilých Slovákov'' (Mladé Slovensko č. 3-4/1921) * ''Národ a dejiny'' (1924) * ''Národ a československá otázka'' (1925) * ''K počiatkom maďarizácie. I. diel. Vývoj rečovej otázky v Uhorsku 1740–1790'' (Sp. fil. fak. Bratislava 1927) * ''Maďarizácia, Trianion, revízia a demokracia'' (Prúdy 1930) * ''Maďarónstvo Bernolákovo'' (Bratislava 1930) * ''Československé dejiny. Problémy a metódy'' (1930) * ''K počiatkom maďarizácie. II. diel. Prvé zákony maďarizačné 1790–1792'' (Bratislava 1931) * ''O Starý Liptov'' (1934) * ''Slovenské povstanie v roku 1848–1849, I/1-2—V/1-2'' (1937, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1967, 1972) * ''Pribinov nitriansky kostolík'' (1941) * ''Doba štúrovská'' (1942) * ''Slovenský prestolný prosbopis z roku 1842'' (Tranoscius, Liptovský Mikuláš 1943) * ''Viedenské memorandum slovenské z roku 1861'' (1943) * ''Ilegálna maďarizácia 1790–1840'' (1947) * ''Tatrín. Osudy a zápasy'' (1950) * ''Sedliacke povstanie na východnom Slovensku roku 1831. I/1-3'' (1953) * ''Slováci v dejinách'' (Slovenské pohľady č. 3/1968) * ''Logika dejín'' (Kultúrny život č. 33/1968)

Awards

* 1968 – National Award of Slovak Socialistic Republic * 1969 – Honour Badge of Labour * 1987 – Gold Medal of Slovak Academy of Sciences * 1991 – Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st class (in memoriam)

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Daniel Rapant, Comenius University
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rapant, Daniel 1897 births 1988 deaths Academic staff of Comenius University Czechoslovak historians People from Skalica District Burials at National Cemetery in Martin