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* Košice, July 3, 1883 – † Budapest, June 26, 1955 / lawyer, historian, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1949) ; ; He completed his law studies at the University of Cluj in 1906. He came into contact with left-wing thinkers and Marxist teachings at an early age. He was a collaborator of the journal Huszadik Század, and was on friendly terms with Ervin Szabó, which only accelerated his approach to the labor movement of the time. In 1907–1911, he worked in the USA and Switzerland, among other things, he was the editor of the Népakarat workers' newspaper published in America. In 1910, he was inaugurated as a doctor of philosophy in Bern. Between 1911–1919, he lived in Hungary, working as a journalist and teacher. After the communist takeover in March 1919, he became Béla Kun's deputy at the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs. During the Soviet Republic, he was appointed a university professor and also became the director of the Research Institute of Historical Materialism, but he emigrated after the fall of the Commune. He lived in Vienna and Berlin between 1922 and 1937, and in 1937 he went to the Soviet Union and taught universal and diplomatic history at the University of Rostov. In 1944, he returned to Hungary with the Soviet troops. In 1945, he was appointed a university professor, but also worked as a state secretary for foreign affairs. He was Hungarian ambassador to Prague in 1947 and to London in 1948–1951. After his return home, he was a professor at the Budapest University of Science and Technology until his death. ; ; His main works: ; Suffrage and Electoral Systems, 1908, ; Krieg und Proletariat, 1924, ; German Policy in Hungary in Secret German Diplomatic Documents, 1950, ; Fundamental Questions of the Development of Capitalism in the United States in the Light of Soviet Historical Literature, 1954, ; Selected Studies, 1958.