István Deák

István Deák (2008)

Weimar Germany's left-wing intellectuals (1968)

The K. (below) K. Officer (1991)

István Deák (born May 11, 1926 in Székesfehérvár ) is a Hungarian historian and emeritus from Columbia University who researches and teaches in the USA.

Life

Deák began his studies in Budapest in 1945 and left Hungary when the Communists came to power in 1948. He continued his studies at the Sorbonne and then worked as a journalist in France and for Radio Free Europe in Germany. In 1956 he went to New York and continued his research with Fritz Stern at Columbia University, where he taught for 33 years after receiving his doctorate in 1964. From 1968 to 1979 he was director of the Institute on East Central Europe there . After his retirement he was visiting professor at Stanford University in 1999 and 2002 . Deák has worked on topics related to the recent history of Central and Eastern Europe and Hungarian history. He has published a number of magazine articles, most notably in the 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 Studys at the University of Minnesota organized the symposium Dilemmas of East Central Europe: Nationalism, Dictatorship, and the Search for Identity in honor of István Deák in 2000 .

Deák's wife Gloria is an art historian.

Fonts (selection)

• Weimar Germany's left-wing intellectuals. A political history of the Weltbühne and its circle. Berkeley / Los Angeles, CL 1968.
• The lawful revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848-1849. Columbia University Press, New York, NY 1979.
• The social and psychological consequences of the disintegration of Austria-Hungary in 1918 . In: Österreichische Osthefte . Volume 22, 1980, pp. 23–32.
• Could the Hungarian Jews Have Survived? , in: Michael R. Marrus : (= The Nazi Holocaust: historical articles of the destruction of European Jews . Volume 4). Meckler, Westport, CT 1989, ISBN 0-88736-258-3 , OCLC 311127743 pp. 643-650 (first New York Review of Books , February 4, 1982 (English)).
• Beyond nationalism: A social and political history of the Habsburg Officer Corps 1848–1918. Oxford University Press, New York, NY 1990, ISBN 0-19-504505-X .
  • Translation: The K. (u.) K. Officer: 1848–1918 , translated by Marie-Therese Pitner. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1991; 2nd, improved edition 1995, ISBN 3-205-98242-8 .
• Ed. With Jan T. Gross and Tony Judt : The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2000, ISBN 0-691-00953-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about István Deák in the catalog of the German National Library
• homepage at Columbia University
• István Deák in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• NYREV Bibliography of Journal Articles
• “Missjudgment at Nuremberg”, debate on the Nuremberg trials between George Thuroczy and Istvan Deak in: The New York Review of Books , Volume 41, Number 6 · March 24, 1994
• Publications by and about István Deák at Litdok East Central Europe / Herder Institute (Marburg)
• Article by István Deák in the Biographical Lexicon on the history of Southeast Europe