Gyula Szekfű

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Gyula Ignac Szekfű (23 May 1883 – 28 June 1955) was a Hungarian historian, university professor, diplomat and public figure.

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Biography Szekfű was born in to a Catholic middle-class family of a lawyer. From 1905 to 1906 he worked at the National Museum of Hungary, and from 1908 to 1910 he was an intern at the National Archives. He spent seventeen years in Vienna, studying documents from the 16th to 18th centuries. From 1925 he was a professor at the Department of Modern Hungarian History at the University of Budapest. Influenced by Leopold von Ranke, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Friedrich Meinecke, he became the founder of the "spiritual-historical" school in Hungarian historiography, which advocated the idea of a conservative development of his country in the spirit of a "Christian community". In 1920, he published a work entitled "Three Generations" (Hungarian: Három nemzedék. Egy hanyatló kor története), which became one of the most influential works in Hungary during the interwar period. He blamed the division of the country on Hungary's liberal past, which, in his opinion, was alien to its traditions. In his opinion, Hungary would enter an era of nationalist renewal, during which it would be necessary to abandon liberalism, which had “seduced” the Hungarian nobility, in alliance with the Jewish bourgeoisie, to usurp economic and cultural unity and leadership from…Citește mai mult

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Selected works A száműzött Rákóczi (1913) Három nemzedék (1920) Három nemzedék és ami utána következik (1934) Valahol utat vesztettünk (1943) Nép, nemzet, állam. Válogatott tanulmányok (2002)