Péter Ágoston
Péter Ágoston (born March 25, 1874 in Zsombolya , † September 6, 1925 in Paris ) was a Hungarian legal scholar , sociologist and Marxist politician.
After studying in Budapest, Ágoston became a professor at the Nagyvárad Law Academy in 1901 . He was one of the permanent authors of the socio-political and social science journals of the Hungarian left. 1918/19 he was State Secretary of the revolutionary government of Béla Kun and professor of private law at the University of Budapest and finally People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs. After the successful counter-revolution he was sentenced to death, but came to Moscow through a prisoner exchange . From 1924 he lived in Paris and London .
As a Marxist sociologist, Ágoston dealt with the history and social situation of the Hungarian landowners , with the Jewish question and the sociology of property . He endeavored to further develop Marxist agricultural science and agricultural sociology , with the focus on application.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The information is based on: Georgy Litvan, Agoston, Peter . 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. 5.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ágoston, Péter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian legal scholar, sociologist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zsombolya |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1925 |
| Place of death | Paris |