Elek Bolgár

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Elek Bolgár (born July 3, 1883 in Košice , Austria-Hungary ; died June 26, 1955 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian sociologist and Marxist politician.

Life

After studying law in Budapest and Kolozsvár , Bolgár worked for the Hungarian Society for Social Sciences from 1906 to 1918 and was a magazine author. In 1909 and 1911 he went on study trips to the USA , where he held social science lectures at Clark University . In 1910 he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Bern . During the revolution of 1918/19 he was first envoy of the Soviet Republic in Vienna and finally deputy people's commissar for foreign affairs in the government of Béla Kun and at the same time professor at the philosophy faculty of the University of Budapest . After the successful counter-revolution, he emigrated first to Germany, then to the Soviet Union . In 1945 he returned to Budapest, where he again taught as a professor at the university.

In the first half of his life, during which he worked as a sociologist, he wrote an overview of the development of sociology in Hungary in German . He dealt mainly with the situation of the working people ( unemployment , emigration , trade union movement ), later also with the comparison of electoral systems. In theory, he was a sharp critic of the biological and psychological directions in sociology.

Bolgár married the journalist Elza Stern in 1908 , they had the daughter Hedda Bolgar .

Fonts (selection)

  • Választójog és választórendszerek . German Zsigmond és Társa Könyvkereskedése. Budapest 1908.
  • Szovjetgazdaság és szovjetkultúra . Magyar-Szovjet Baráti Társaság. Budapest 1945.
  • A Szovjetunió állami szervezete és társadalmi rendje . Fővárosi Könyvkiadó RT Budapest 1946.
  • Németek magyarországi politikája titkos német diplomáciai okmányokban (1937–1942) . Szikra kiadás. Budapest, 1947.
  • A capitalizm fejlődésének alapvető kérdései az Egyesält Államokban a szovjet történeti irodalom fényénél . Akadémiai Kiadó. Budapest, 1954.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The information is based on: L. Remete, Bolgár, Elek . In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Ed.), Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 1: Articles on sociologists who died by the end of 1969. 2nd revised edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-432-82652-4 , p. 46 f.
  2. ↑ on Elza Stern see also the article hu: Stephani Elza
personal data
SURNAME Bolgár, Elek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian sociologist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Košice
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1955
Place of death Budapest