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Adorjan Divéky

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* Alsókubin, August 17, 1880 – Budapest, May 25, 1965 / historian, university professor ; ; The Divéky family came to Árva County in 1760. Adorján Divéky graduated from the University of Budapest in 1906, where he also earned a doctorate in humanities. He initially worked as a high school teacher in Szepes, Liptó and Árva counties. ; In 1909–1911, he studied history at the University of Krakow, and from 1917 he researched archival materials related to Hungarian in Warsaw, while he was a Hungarian language lecturer at the university there, and then a lecturer in Hungarian history until 1929. In 1935–1939, he worked as the director of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Warsaw. In 1939–1950, he taught Eastern European history at the University of Debrecen. After 1945, he translated Polish memoirs of 1848 and collected Hungarian memories of the Renaissance period in Krakow. Adorján Divéky became a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1930, and from 1937 he was a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. ; ; His main works: ; The trade connections of Upper Hungary with Poland, especially in the 16th-17th centuries, 1905, ; The accounts of the Polish prince Sigismund of Buda 1500-1502, 1914, ; Hungarians and Poles in the 19th century, 1919, ; The pledge to Poland ; The re-annexation of the city of Spiš in 1770, 1929.

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11290

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Lándok