Kálmán Hamar

Kálmán Hamar
BornOctober 12, 1928
DiedJune 11, 1989
Occupationhistorian

Kálmán Hamar (October 12, 1928 – June 11, 1989) was a Hungarian historian from Slovakia. He was a professor at the Marx-Lenin Institute of the Bratislava College of Economics, and served as president of the Hungarian Historical Society of Czechoslovakia.

Biography

From 1960 to 1963, Hamar was the head of the Hungarian editorial office of the Slovakian Pedagogical Book Publisher (textbook publisher) in Bratislava where he taught Hungarian.[1][2]

Hamar was a professor at the Marx-Lenin Institute of the Bratislava College of Economics.[3]

He was first a member of the Bratislava city committee of Csemadok,[4] and then its president.[5] From 1970, he was the first president of the Hungarian Historical Society of Czechoslovakia.[6]

Hamar primarily dealt with labor movement topics considered important at the time,[7][8]

He is interred in the urn cemetery in Lamac.[9]

Critics

Some criticism was related to his works failing to comply with archived materials.[10]

References

  1. ^ New Salt November 3, 1959, 5; January 16, 1960, 7
  2. ^ Forum Social Science Review 2007/1, 173.
  3. ^ A Hét 16/18, 3 (May 7, 1971) Cf. February 5 and 21, March 26, May 28
  4. ^ Új Só April 25, 1970, 2.
  5. ^ A Hét 21/2, 4 (1976. January 13.)
  6. ^ Fórum Társadalomtudományi Szemle 2009/2, 103-104.
  7. ^ "Szlovákiai Magyar Adatbank » szlovákiai magyar történetírás". adatbank.sk. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
  8. ^ László Bese 2016: Changes in the memory of the Battle of Komárom in 1919. In: Multi-ethnic worlds in Central Europe, 1867-1944. 145.
  9. ^ "Virtuálne cintoríny - Virtuálny cintorín". www.cintoriny.sk. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
  10. ^ László Fogarassy 1983: Corrective statement. Literary Review 1983/3, 288.