Miklós Szántó (1916-2015)
Biography
Miklós Szántó, Sociology Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, was born in Budapest in October of 1916, in the period of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, in the middle of WWI. He was a child when the months of Aster Revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat came (in 1919). Then Horthy Regime was in Hungary; he rebelled or rather showed reluctance against it. He became a soldier in 1940, then he had to struggle with the dangerous circumstances of labour service for 4 long years.
In the beginning of 1945, at the age of 29, he restarted his life as an adult. In Rákosi-regime, in the period of "exiled question marks", he was a party hack, leader of trade union, head of department in one of the ministries in the first period of the 1950s. Then he was dismissed, he worked at the county council and aspirant of philosophy in Lenin institute. He was wounded by the mob law taken place on Köztársaság square in 1956. He changed his career; he was working as a journalist. From 1960 (for 25 years) he was the chief editor of Magyar Hírek (Hungarian News) which was the journal of the World Federation of Hungarians, one of the people who initiated the "movement of mother language"; he also was one of the refounders of Hungarian sociology, researcher. He wrote several books, mainly in the fields of cultural sociology and emigration sociology. After his retirement, he wrote 2 remarkable works: A magyar szociológia újjászervezése a hatvanas évtizedben (1998); Tengerentúli magyarok (2001).
(Source: Miklós Szántó: Életutam hét rendszerváltáson át. - [Budapest]: Glória, 2006. back cover)
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