Oszkár Jászi

Oszkar Jászi ( born March 2, 1875 in Nagykároly, Kingdom of Hungary, † February 13, 1957 in Oberlin (Ohio ), United States) was a Hungarian writer, politician and sociologist.

Life

Jászi came from an educated family, and studied at universities in Budapest, France and England. After his return he worked until 1911 in the Ministry of Agriculture.

Jászi maintained close friendly contact with Ervin Szabó, was a friend and patron of the poet Endre Ady and married in 1913 to 1918 with the poet, painter and illustrator Anna Lesznai, they had three sons. He was chief editor of the magazine Huszadik század ( " The 20th Century" ) and Chairman of the bourgeois opposition party Országos radicalism PART. In the bourgeois-democratic revolution Aster 1918 he was a member of the Hungarian National Council. Under the democratic Prime Minister Mihály Károlyi he had 1918/1919 Ministerial. In January 1919 he was appointed professor of sociology at the University of Budapest. After the end of the Soviet Republic went first to Vienna and 1924 in the U.S., where he was professor of sociology at Oberlin College.

Writings in German translation

• The crisis of the Hungarian Constitution. A memorandum. Budapest: Politzer, 1912, 25 p.
• The problem of nationality. Hague: . Nijhoff, 1916, p 6
• The collapse of dualism and the future of the Danube countries. Vienna:. Manz, 1918, VI, 120 S.
• Magyariens guilt, atonement Hungary. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Hungary. Munich: Publishing for Cultural Policy, 1923, XV, 249 p.