Laszlo Barath

* Rimaszombat, 1910. Feb. 21 – † / lawyer, publicist, newspaper editor ; ; He completed high school in Rimaszombat and law in Prague. As a university student, he was the president of the Prague MAK, but also took part in the university groups called the Hungarian Protestant Friends Circle and the Széchenyi Reform Movement, which opposed denominational organizations and envisioned the activities of the youth movements on a national and general Christian basis. After completing his studies, he founded the university graduates' movement organization, the Gömöri Diet, with the writer István Farkas, and was the responsible editor of its short-lived newspaper, Egyenes Úton. He practiced law in Rimaszombat, and was a member of the leadership of the local Evangelical community and the secular notary of the Association of Hungarian Evangelicals in Slovenia. He emigrated to Nicaragua at the end of 1944, his life there is unknown. ; – He published since his university days, he was a supporter of the Hungarian opposition parties and at the same time an internal critic. In his political articles and situation studies he mainly attacked the communists and social democrats, debated with Fábry, who gave itinerant lectures, and sharply condemned the servility of emigrant writers and journalists. His most significant writings: The futility of the Hungarian movements in Czechoslovakia, MÍ  9/1936, The "politics-free" minority cultural life, ibid. ; ; 1937/3. He wrote a valuable study on the life of the Hungarian Evangelical church community in Slovakia. ; ; Works: The Evangelicals. = Hungarians in Czechoslovakia