Milan Stanislav Ďurica

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Milan Stanislav Ďurica SDB (born August 13, 1925 in Krivany , Czechoslovakia , now Slovakia ) is a Slovak historian , publicist , translator and university professor of theology and history . Until 1998 he lived in Italy. He is mainly concerned with modern Slovak history , especially the time of the Slovak state .

Life

From 1956 Milan Ďurica worked as professor of theology at the Salesian College in Abano Terme . In 1967 he became professor of political and constitutional history of Eastern European countries. For a while he also gave lectures on the Slovak language at the University of Padua , where he worked until 1997.

In 1969, Ďurica founded and directed the scientific series Collana di studi sulľ Europa Orientale delľ Università di Padova (a total of 34 volumes). In Slovakia he worked in the Central Committee of the Slovak Catholic Student Union (ÚSKŠ) and was co-founder and general secretary of the Central Committee of Slovak Catholic Intellectuals (ÚSKI) . In 1990, Ďurica was appointed by the Presidium of the Slovak National Council as a foreign expert of a commission of historians for the preparation of professional studies on the history of Slovakia in the 20th century. In 1991 he was appointed by the Slovak Minister of Culture as the first director of the Slovak Historical Institute in Rome (SÚR), and he also has services to its establishment and recognition in the Vatican . He also worked as editor of the annual Slovak Studies .

From 1993 he worked as a professor of church history at the theological faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava . In the same year he founded the Institute for the History of Christianity in Slovakia that he still leads today. In 1997 he became a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute for the Relationship between State and Church of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, in 2002 a member of the Academic Senate of the Roman Catholic Theological Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava and in 2006 a member of the Scientific College of the Historical Institute of the Catholic University in Ružomberok .

Milan Ďurica was a theologian of Pope John XXIII. Appointed as adviser to his preparatory commission of the Second Vatican Council . He was the co-author of several worldwide encyclopedias. He was also a co-designer of six Italian, German and Latin encyclopedic works. The volume of his bibliography represents 1700 publications, edited in eight different languages.

criticism

In a publication on the right-wing scene in Eastern Europe, the authors criticize Ďurica as an “ultra-nationalist historian”. Several historians polemicize the work of Ďurica, some of them completely reject it. However, some appreciate his enrichment for Slovak histography, especially because of the many sources he collected, especially from the Italian archives, which were inaccessible to Slovak historians during the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.

In an interview with the Slovak historian Anton Hruboň , the Israeli historian Yeshayahu A. Jelinek judged that Ďurica was a "trained historian", but together with the historian František Vnuk had a direct influence on the formation of a neoludak historiography .

Awards

Order of the Great Officer for Services to the Italian Republic

Work (selection)

  • Dr. Jozef Tiso and the Jewish Problem in Slovakia , 1957
  • La Slovacchia a le sue relazioni politiche con la Germania 1938 - 1945. Vol I. , Padova, 1964
  • Slovakia in the March crisis in 1939 , 1964
  • Cultural Relations Between Slovakia and Italy in Modern Times , Toronto 1978
  • La lingua slovaca. Profilo storico-filologico guida bibliografica , Padova 1983
  • Dr. Jozef Kirschbaum and his political activities in the light of the secret documents of the Third Reich , Munich 1988
  • La Slovaquie et ses efforts vers l'independance (de 1848 a 1938) , In: Slovak Studies 28–29, Bratislava 1988
  • Christian cultural life as a historical constant of the ethnic identity of the Slovaks , In: Slovakia 26, Bratislava 1989
  • National identity and its historical outline in Slovak reality , In: Slovakia 26, Bratislava 1989
  • Slovenský národ a jeho štátnosť , Bratislava 1990
  • Recepcia F. Petrarcu v slovenskej kultúre , Bratislava 1991
  • A Historical Projection of the Heritage of Cyril and Methodius in the Slovak Culture , In: Slovak Review 1, Bratislava 1992
  • Andrej Hlinka priekopník sociálnej starostlivosti a Demokratieických práv slovenského ľudu , Bratislava 1994
  • Dejiny Slovenska a Slovákov , Slovenské pedagogické nakladateľstvo, Bratislava 1995
  • K otázke počiatkov slovenských dejín , Martin 1995
  • Priblížiť sa k pravde , Bratislava 1997
  • Milan Rastislav Štefánik vo svetle talianskych dokumentov , THB, 1998
  • Slovenská republika 1939-1945 , Bratislava 1999, ISBN 80-7114-262-X .
  • Jozef Tiso (1887-1947), Životopisný profil , Bratislava 2006, ISBN 80-7114-572-6 .
  • Kedy sme vstúpili do dejín? K otázke začiatkov slovenských dejín , Bratislava 2006, ISBN 80-7114-565-3 .
  • Odkedy sme Slováci? Pôvod Slovákov a kresťanstvo , Bratislava 2006, ISBN 80-7114-485-1 .
  • Nacionalizmus alebo národné povedomie? Bratislava 2006, ISBN 80-7114-566-1 .
  • Dejiny Slovenska a Slovákov v časovej následnosti faktov dvoch tisícročí , Bratislava 2007
  • Slovenská republika a jej vzťah k Svätej stolici (1939-1945) , Bratislava 2007, ISBN 978-80-7114-651-3 .
  • Priblížiť sa k pravde. Kritický pohľad na Stanovisko Historického ústavu SAV k mojej knihe Dejiny Slovenska a Slovákov , Bratislava 2007, ISBN 978-80-7114-606-3 .
  • Jozef Tiso v očiach neslovenských autorov , Bratislava 2007, ISBN 978-80-7114-608-7 .
  • Slobodní murári , Bratislava 2007, ISBN 978-80-7114-652-0 .
  • Moravskí Slováci. Cyrilo-metodovské dedictvo , Bratislava 2007, ISBN 978-80-7114-607-0 .
  • Tomáš G. Masaryk a jeho vzťah k Slovákom , Bratislava 2007, ISBN 978-80-7114-653-7 .
  • Edvard Beneš a jeho vzťah k Slovákom , Bratislava 2008, ISBN 978-80-7114-668-1 .
  • Jozef Tiso a Židia , Bratislava 2008, ISBN 978-80-7114-701-5 .
  • Vzťahy medzi Slovákmi a Čechmi , Bratislava 2008, ISBN 978-80-7114-699-5 .
  • Slováci a Sedembolestná. Kultúrno-historický náčrt , Bratislava 2008, ISBN 978-80-7114-700-8 .
  • Čo ohrozuje našu štátnosť. K 15. výročiu Slovenskej republiky , Bratislava 2008, ISBN 978-80-7114-667-4 .
  • Židia zo Slovenska v dejinách kultúry a vedy , Bratislava 2008, ISBN 978-80-7114-669-8 .
  • Slovenský národný odpor proti nacizmu , Bratislava 2009, ISBN 978-80-7114-726-8 .
  • Slovenské dejiny a ich historiografia , Bratislava 2009, ISBN 978-80-7114-784-8 .
  • Národná identita a jej historický profil v slovenskej spoločnosti , Bratislava 2010, ISBN 978-80-7114-802-9 .
  • Ohrozenia kresťanstva v súčasnej politickej situácii , Bratislava 2010, ISBN 978-80-7114-827-2 .
  • Z rozhrania svetov. Výber z básnickej tvorby , Bratislava 2010, ISBN 978-80-7114-826-5 .
  • Ferdinand Ďurčanský a jeho vzťah k Hitlerovmu Nemecku , Bratislava 2011, ISBN 978-80-7114-859-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gregor Mayer, Bernhard Odehnal: Aufmarsch. The right danger from Eastern Europe. Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-7017-3175-6 , p. 185
  2. ↑ Jozef Tiso rozdeľuje aj historikov, www.sme.sk, March 7, 2007, accessed on September 10, 2011
  3. ↑ Interview by Anton Hruboň with Yeshayahu A. Jelinek, 2013 (Slovak)
personal data
SURNAME Ďurica, Milan Stanislav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak historian, publicist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Krivany , Czechoslovakia , now Slovakia