Dušan Kováč (born 3 January 1942) is a Slovak historian and writer. He specializes in Slovak and Central European history of the 19th and 20th centuries, the author or co-author of several synthetic works about Slovak history. The head of the Institute of History of the

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(1990-1998), the scientific secretary of the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (since 1998). The member of several Slovak and foreign scientific organisations like the Collegium Carolinum in

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or the

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. He is a brother of the Slovak ex-president Michal Kováč.

Selected works

* 1979 Od Dvojspolku k anšlusu rom the Double Alliance to the Anschluss* 1991 Nemecko a nemecká menšina na Slovensku 1871-1945 ermany and the German Minority in Slovakia 1871-1945* 1992 Slovenské dejiny lovak History(co-author) * 1992 History and Politics * 1995 Slovensko v Rakúsko-Uhorsku lovakia in Austria-Hungary* 1997 Slováci. Česi. Dejiny he Slovaks. The Czechs. History* 1998 Dejiny Slovenska istory of Slovakia* 1998 Kronika Slovenska 1 hronicle of Slovakia 1(co-author) * 1999 Kronika Slovenska 2 hronicle of Slovakia 2(co-author)

Awards

* Pribina Cross, II. class (President of the Slovak Republic)

External links

Dušan Kováč at osobnosti.sk
(Slovak) {{DEFAULTSORT:Kovac, Dusan 1942 births 20th-century Slovak historians Living people Herder Prize recipients People from Humenné