Gogolák Lajos

* Bratislava, March 18, 1910 – † Vienna, September 22, 1987 / historian, publicist, university professor ; ; He began his school studies in his hometown. He earned a doctorate in law from the Budapest University of Science and Technology, then pursued historical studies at the Faculty of Humanities. He became an assistant professor at the university's Minority Institute and a lecturer at the East European Institute. He primarily dealt with Slovak and Czech literature, culture, and history. His writings were published in the Magyar Szemle and other significant journals. He was a colleague of Magyar Nemzet from its founding in 1938 until 1944. After 1945, he worked for civic newspapers in Budapest, and from 1949 until its closure, he was employed by Kis Újság, and then was the readers' editor of Könyvbarát until 1956. After the 1956 revolution, he emigrated to Vienna. Until his retirement in 1985 (for more than twenty years), he lectured on Slovak history and literature, Hungarian local history in Vienna, and Central Danube history at the East and Southeast European Research Institute as a professor at the University of Vienna. Several of his significant books (on Czechoslovakia, Pan-Slavism, and the South Slavs) were published in Hungary, but during his emigration he published only in German and had little contact with Western Hungarian intellectual life.