Oszkár Jászi

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Oszkár Jászi

Oszkár Jászi (born March 2, 1875 in Nagykároly , Kingdom of Hungary , † February 13, 1957 in Oberlin (Ohio) , USA ) was a Hungarian writer, politician and sociologist.

Life

Jászi came from an educated family and studied at universities in Budapest, France and England. After his return he worked in the Ministry of Agriculture until 1911.

Jászi was in close friendly contact with Ervin Szabó , was a friend and supporter of the poet Endre Ady and married the poet, painter and draftsman Anna Lesznai from 1913 to 1918.They had three sons, including Andrew Jászi , who later became Germanist . He then married Recha Rundt, Arthur Rundt's former wife. Oszkár Jászi was editor-in-chief of the magazine Huszadik század ("The 20th Century") and chairman of the bourgeois opposition party Országos Radikális Párt. In the bourgeois-democratic aster revolution of 1918 he was a member of the Hungarian National Council. Under the democratic prime minister Mihály Károlyi he was minister in 1918/1919. In January 1919 he was appointed professor of sociology at the University of Budapest . After the end of the Soviet Republic he went first to Vienna and in 1924 to the USA, where he became professor of sociology at Oberlin College .

Fonts in German translation

  • The crisis of the Hungarian constitution. A memorandum. Budapest: Politzer, 1912. 25 pp.
  • The nationality problem. Haag: Nijhoff, 1916. 6 pp.
  • The collapse of dualism and the future of the Danube countries. Vienna: Manz, 1918. VI, 120 pp.
  • Magyar's fault, Hungary's atonement. Revolution and counter-revolution in Hungary. Munich: Verlag für Kulturpolitik, 1923. XV, 249 pp.

literature

  • Holger Fischer : Oszkár Jászi and Mihály Károlyi. A contribution to the nationality politics of the bourgeois-democratic opposition in Hungary from 1900 to 1918 and its realization in the bourgeois-democratic government from 1918 to 1919. Munich 1978 (Studia Hungarica 17), ISBN 3-87828-130-7 .
  • György Litván: A twentieth-century prophet: Oscár Jászi, 1875-1957 , Budapest, New York: Central European University Press, 2006.
  • Peter Haslinger : Arad, November 1918: Oszkár Jászi and the Romanians in Hungary, 1900 to 1918 , Vienna: Böhlau, 1993.

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personal data
SURNAME Jászi, Oszkár
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer, politician and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagykároly , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1957
Place of death Oberlin (Ohio) , USA