Joseph Gyonyor

* Szalatnya, October 25, 1920 – † Ipolyság, January 13, 2003 / political scientist, lawyer, legal historian ; ; He spent part of his childhood in Moulins, France, and then went to school in Ege. He graduated from the Ipolyság Realgymnasium in 1939, studied at the Eger Archbishop's Law Academy from 1939 to 1943, and was awarded a doctorate at the Pázmány Péter University of Science in Budapest in 1943. He was wounded during the siege of Budapest and taken prisoner by the Soviets. He returned to Czechoslovakia in 1948, but only received Czechoslovak citizenship in 1955. In the late 1940s, he was investigated on charges of anti-state activity and was kept under constant surveillance for years. He worked in various state offices, and from 1969 in Bratislava, as an employee of the Department of Nationalities of the Government Office of the Slovak Republic, he participated in the preparation of resolutions related to the implementation of the Nationality Constitution Act (language use, place names, bilingual education, etc.). The social, legal and demographic situation of the Hungarians in Slovakia was at the forefront of his research, and he published articles and books on this. Several of his studies were published in collected volumes. At his mother's request, he moved to Egeg in 1990, where he lived in seclusion, working on his memoirs. He did not even receive the Zsigmond Kemény Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2000, he received the silver medal of the Slovak Government. ; ; His main works: ; State-forming nationalities. Facts and data about the nationalities of Czechoslovakia, 1989, ; What will happen to us, Hungarians?, 1990, ; Boundaries were born, 1992; Close to the table of law, 1992; Pregnant heritage, 1994.