István Deák

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Deák in 2008

István Deák (11 May 1926 – 9 January 2023) was a Hungarian-born American historian, author and academic. He was a specialist in modern Europe, with special attention to Germany and Hungary.

Life and work

István Deák was born in

Radio Free Europe in West Germany. In 1956, unable to gain residence in France, he settled in New York City where he studied modern European history at Columbia University under Fritz Stern. He obtained an M.A. (1958) and then a Ph.D. (1964), with a dissertation on "Weimar Germany's 'homeless Left': The world of Carl von Ossietzky," and spent the next 33 years teaching at Columbia. He was the Director of Columbia's Institute on East Central Europe between 1968 and 1979. Prior to teaching at Columbia, he was an instructor for one year (1962-63) at Smith College.[3]

Deák wrote extensively on eastern and central European history and politics. His publications include Weimar Germany's Left-wing Intellectuals (1968); The Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848-1849 (1979); Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918 (1990); and Essays on Hitler's Europe (2001). He edited and partly wrote, together with Jan T. Gross and Tony Judt, The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath (2000). His most recent work is Europe on Trial. The Story of Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution during World War II (2015). He has also written extensively for the

New York Review of Books
and other periodicals.

In 1964 Deák was able to visit Hungary for the first time since his departure, and thereafter he regularly attended academic conferences in Hungary and worked to re-establish links between American and Hungarian historians. In 1990, following the fall of the communist regime, he was elected to the

Holocaust.[4] His wife, Gloria Deak
, is an art historian.

Deák died on 10 January 2023, at the age of 96.[5][6]

Bibliography

Books written

  • Deák, István (1968). Weimar Germany's Left-Wing Intellectuals: A Political History of the Weltbühne and Its Circle. University of California Press.
  • Deák, István (1979). The Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848-1849. Columbia University Press.
  • Deák, István (1990). Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918. Oxford University Press.
  • Deák, István (2001). Essays on Hitler's Europe. University of Nebraska Press.
  • Deák, István (2015). Europe on Trial. The Story of Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution during World War II. Westview Press.

Books edited

  • Deák, István; Gross, Jan T.; Judt, Tony (2000). The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath. Princeton University Press.

References

  1. ^ Bognár, Desi K. (ed.), Hungarians in America: A Biographical Directory of Professionals of Hungarian Origin in the Americas. Philadelphia: Afi Publication, 1971, 45-46.
  2. ^ Columbia University bio
  3. ^ Bognár, 46.
  4. ^ "István Deák: Memories of Hell" in The New York Review of Books, June 26, 1997
  5. ^ "Dominique Kirchner Reill on Twitter:..." Twitter. 10 January 2023. Archived from the original on 10 January 2023. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Meghalt Deák István". HVG. 10 January 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2023.

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