Bálint Balla
Bálint Balla (born July 7, 1928 in Budapest ; † June 25, 2018 in Berlin ) was a Hungarian-German sociologist .
Live and act
After graduating from high school in 1944 and studying law and political science in Budapest ( doctorate in 1951), he worked in wholesaling, turned to sociology , studied at the social research center at the University of Münster from 1965–67 and then went to the Technical University of Berlin as a senior assistant . In 1969 he co-founded the Evangelical Academy for Hungary in Europe in Bern. In 1971 he completed his habilitation in sociology at the Technical University of Berlin, where he worked as a professor of general sociology until his retirement in 1993 and as a visiting professor at other German universities and in Romania.
His studies on cadre management (1972) and especially on a sociology of scarcity (1978) earned him reputation. He was the “honorary spokesman” of the European Sociology Section in the German Sociological Society (DGS).
In 1991 he was awarded the Imre Nagy plaque and in 2002 an honorary doctorate from the University of Budapest. He has published around 50 scientific and general books and has also worked as an author, publicist and translator from Hungarian.
Balla was buried in the Grunewald cemetery.
Fonts (selection)
- Cadre administration , Enke Ferdinand, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 978-3432017846
- Sociology of Scarcity , Enke Ferdinand, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 978-3432897714
- On a sociology of post-communism , LIT, Münster 1994
- Sociology and history. History of Sociology , Reinhold Krämer, Hamburg 1995
- Collapse of the Soviet system. Challenge for Sociology , Reinhold Krämer, Hamburg 1996
- Ethnicity, nation , culture , Reinhold Krämer, Hamburg 1998
- Pitirim A. Sorokin , Reinhold Krämer, Hamburg 2002
- Scarcity as the origin of social action , foreword: Lars Clausen , Reinhold Krämer, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89622-070-5
- Karl Mannheim , Reinhold Krämer, Hamburg 2007
- The number three and sociology , Reinhold Krämer, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89622-089-9 .
- Globalization, Europeanization, regionalization , Reinhold Krämer, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89622-098-1 .
- Waltraud Balla - Doctor and Angel: A Biography , Reinhold Krämer, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 3-89622-106-X .
literature
- Stephan Beetz, Ulf Jacob, Anton Sterbling (eds.): Sociology across borders. European perspectives. Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Bálint Balla for his 75th birthday. Krämer, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-89622-060-8
- Scarcity, Eastern Europe, Culture. Given for the 85th birthday of the sociologist Bálint Balla. With contributions by Stephan Beetz, Claudia Gather, Wolfgang Geier, Ulf Jacob, Horst Kunz and Anton Sterbling . In: Kultursoziologie , 2/2013, pp. 87–105 (with a portrait photo on p. 105), ISSN 0941-343X
Web links
- Literature by and about Bálint Balla in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Balla, Bálint |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-German sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 2018 |
| Place of death | Berlin |