Endre Sík
Endre Sík | |
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File:SíkEndre.jpg | |
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary | |
In office 15 February 1958 – 13 September 1961 | |
Preceded by | Imre Horváth |
Succeeded by | János Péter |
Personal details | |
Born | Budapest, Austria-Hungary | 2 April 1891
Died | 10 April 1978 Budapest, People's Republic of Hungary | (aged 87)
Political party | MKP, MDP, MSZMP |
Profession | politician, jurist, historian, writer |
Endre Sík (2 April 1891 – 10 April 1978) was a Hungarian historian, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1958 and 1961. He was the younger brother of Sándor Sík, poet, piarist teacher.
During the First World War he was captured by the Russians. After that he lived in the Soviet Union. In 1920, he joined the Soviet Communist Party. In 1945, he returned to Hungary, and became a Communist politician. He was deputy of the foreign minister (1954–1958), then minister (1958–1961).
In his scientific work, he studied the history of African ethnic groups. He obtained the Doctor of Sciences degree of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1962.
His book, Vihar a levelet, containing his recollections on the Soviet Union in the 1930s, was banned and withdrawn immediately after appearance.[1]
Works
- Fekete Afrika története I–IV (The history of Black Africa), Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1961–1973.
- Vihar a levelet, Zrínyi Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 1970.
References
- ^ Amikor a könyvtárba a politika jön látogatóba, OGYK Hirlevél
- 1891 births
- 1978 deaths
- Writers from Budapest
- Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I
- Hungarian prisoners of war
- World War I prisoners of war held by Russia
- Historians of Africa
- Hungarian politicians
- Hungarian communists
- Foreign ministers of Hungary
- Hungarian expatriates in the Soviet Union
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Hungarian politician stubs