Jocsik Alajos

* Érsekújvár, May 4, 1910 – † Budapest, December 31, 1980 / sociologist, publicist, writer ; ; He completed high school in his hometown and law in Bratislava and Brno. In the years between the two world wars, he actively participated in the youth movements of the Highlands, was one of the founders of Sarló, and one of the main organizers of the regös and sociographic migrations. In 1937–1938, he was the editor of the Hungarian department of the Prague radio. At the end of 1938, he moved to Budapest and became the editor of Kelet Népe. After 1945, he was a leader and member of parliament of the National Peasant Party and a government commissioner of the Resettlement Office, which supervised the Czechoslovak-Hungarian population exchange. ; From the 1930s he published numerous sociological studies on the situation of the Hungarians in the Highlands (The Hungarian Middle Class in Slovenia, 1931), on the Eastern European peasantry and on the Jews living in Czechoslovakia. From the 1950s he primarily dealt with the theoretical and practical issues of land management, food supply and ecological problems. He also wrote several novels. ; ; His main works: ; Érsekújvár (In: Szlovákiai városképek), 1938, ; School for the Hungarians, 1939, ; Under a Foreign Yoke, 1940, ; Return, Orientation, 1942, ; The Path of the Hungarian Cooperative Movement, 1948, ; Composting, 1962, ; Bread of the World Today and in the Year 2000, 1964; Suicidal Civilization, 1971; A Country on a Star, 1977; This Was the Sickle (co-author), 1978.