Ivan Kamenec

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Ivan Kamenec at a meeting of the Slovak Historical Society (2019).

Ivan Kamenec (born August 27, 1938 in Nitra , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak historian . He is particularly concerned with the history of the Slovak state as well as the Slovak participation in the Holocaust and is considered one of the most renowned historians in the country.

Life

Kamenec was born to Jewish parents. His father, as a civil engineer in the Slovak state, received an economic exemption certificate from anti-Semitic legislation and took part in the Slovak National Uprising in 1944 .

In 1961, Kamenec graduated from the Philosophical Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava with a degree in history and cultural history . He then worked in the Slovak National Archives and the Slovak National Museum and is currently a senior staff member of the Historický ústav (Historical Institute). He was a member of the communist party until the Velvet Revolution in 1989. He is primarily concerned with researching and interpreting the political and cultural history of the 20th century.

He also deals with some theoretical questions of Slovak historiography and its development. His research focuses primarily on the problems of the history of the Slovak state from 1939 to 1945. His main topic is the historical reconstruction of the political system, the Holocaust and the profiles of the highest political dignitaries of this state.

Externally, he gives lectures at Slovak universities and gives technical presentations at scientific events at home and abroad.

reception

The German historian Tatjana Tönsmeyer (2003) judges in her monograph The Third Reich and Slovakia 1939–1945 that Kamenec's work is one of the few serious works that were produced in Slovak and Czechoslovak historiography before the 1989 Velvet Revolution . For the period after the fall of the Wall, Tönsmeyer highlights the Holocaust study Po stopách tragédie published by Kamenec in 1991 and the Tiso biography Tragédia politika, kňaza a človeka , published in 1998 .

The German historian Sabine Witt (2015), on the other hand, assesses Kamenec in her work on nationalist intellectuals as follows:

Ivan Kamenec is one of the most independent and renowned Slovak historians, who in the 1960s dealt intensively with the role of the Slovak state in the deportation of Jews and in the 1980s made a clear turn to Marxist historiography.

Works

  • Spoločnosť, politika, historiografia [= society, politics, historiography]. Prodrama Verlag, Bratislava 2009, ISBN 978-80-89396-02-3 .
  • Slovenský štát v obrazoch [= The Slovak state in pictures]. Ottovo nakladatelství, Prague 2008, ISBN 978-80-7360-700-5 . (Text from Kamenec's 1992 work Slovenský štát (1939–1945) supplemented with illustrations . )
  • On The Trail of Tragedy: The Holocaust In Slovakia. Hajko & Hajková Publishing House, Bratislava 20007. (English translation of Kamenec's standard work Po stopách tragédie , published in 1991. )
  • Hľadanie a blúdenie v dejinách [= searching for and wandering around in history]. Kalligram Verlag, Bratislava 2000.
  • Tragédia politika, kňaza a človeka. Dr. Jozef Tiso 1887-1947 [= The tragedy of a politician, priest and man. Dr. Jozef Tiso 1887-1947]. Archa, Bratislava 1998, ISBN 80-7115-147-5
  • Vatikán a Slovenská republika - Dokumenty [= The Vatican and the Slovak Republic - Documents]. SAP Verlag, Bratislava 1992
  • Slovenský štát (1939–1945) [= The Slovak State (1939–1945)]. Anomal Publishing House, Prague 1992
  • Po stopách tragédie [= On the trail of tragedy]. Archa Verlag, Bratislava 1991
  • Začiatky marxistického historického myslenia na Slovensku. Veda Verlag, Bratislava 1984

literature

  • Ivan Kamenec, Miroslav Michela: Rozhovor s dejinami: Ivan Kamenec o cestách slovenskej histórie s Miroslavom Michelom [= A conversation with history: Ivan Kamenec about the paths of Slovak history with Miroslav Michel]. HADARD Publishing, 2019.

Web links

Čítajte viac: http://www.sme.sk/c/6812776/historik-kamenec-tiso-a-husak-maju-neprijemne-vela-spolocneho.html#ixzz3L4qFhFgr

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tatjana Tönsmeyer: The Third Reich and Slovakia 1939-1945. Political everyday life between cooperation and obstinacy. Paderborn 2003, p. 16f.
  2. ^ Sabine Witt: Nationalist intellectuals in Slovakia 1918–1945. Cultural practice between sacralization and secularization. Berlin / Munich / Boston 2015, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Kamenec, Ivan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Nitra , Czechoslovakia , now Slovakia