István Deák

István Deák ( born May 11, 1926 in Székesfehérvár ) is a Hungarian historian and professor emeritus at Columbia University, who conducts research in the U.S. and teaches.

Life

Deak began his studies in 1945 in Budapest and left at the time of the Communist takeover in 1948 Hungary. He continued his studies at the Sorbonne and worked as a journalist in France and for Radio Free Europe in Germany. In 1956 he went to New York and continued his research continued at Fritz Stern at Columbia University, where he taught for his doctorate in 1964 for 33 years. From 1968 to 1979 he was the Director of The Institute on East Central Europe. After his retirement, he was still 1999 and 2002 Visiting Professor at Stanford University. Deak has worked on issues of modern history of Central Europe and Eastern Europe and the Hungarian history. He has published a number of journal articles, mainly in New York Review of Books and The New Republic.

From 1964 Deák was able to visit Hungary again. After the collapse of communism, he became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

The Center for Austrian Studies How the University of Minnesota has the symposium Dilemmas of East Central Europe in 2000: organized Nationalism, Dictatorship, and the Search for Identity in honor of István Deák.

Deak wife Gloria is an art historian.

Writings (selection )

• Weimar Germany's left-wing intellectuals. A political history of the world stage and its circle .. Berkeley / Los Angeles 1968.
• The lawful revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848-1849. Columbia Univ., New York 1979.
• The social and psychological Consequences of the disintegration of Austria -Hungary in 1918 In: . Austrian Osthefte. Volume 22, 1980, pp. 23-32.
• Beyond nationalism: A social and political history of the Habsburg Officer Corps 1848-1918. Oxford University Press, New York, 1990, ISBN 0 - 19-504505 -X. Translation: The K. ( u ) K. Officer: 1848-1918. German Ins transmitted by Marie -Therese Pitner. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar in 1991; Second, revised edition 1995, ISBN 3-205-98242-8.