János Kósa, Creamer

* Tornalja, August 19, 1914 – † New York, April 1973 / sociologist, historian, writer, university professor ; ; He graduated from the Piarist Gymnasium in Budapest, then studied history at the Pázmány Péter University and received his doctorate there in 1937. In 1937–1938 he was a fellow at the Hungarian Institute for Historical Research in Vienna, in 1940–1947 he was an intern, then an assistant professor at the Budapest University of Science. In 1947 he became a private tutor at the University of Science in Szeged. He left Hungary in 1949. From 1952 he lectured on sociology at George Williams University in Montreal, then from 1964–1973 he headed an institute researching family health problems at Harvard University in Boston. His studies have been published in several Hungarian journals. In the USA, he dealt with the sociology of immigrants and population statistics. ; ; His main works: ; The Magyarization of Pest and Buda until 1848, 1937, ; Additions to the History of the Hungarian Language Use in the Counties, 1938, ; The Development of the Silk Industry in Budapest, 1939, ; II. György Rákóczi (biography), 1943, ; Thomas Mann the Humanist, 1945, ; Land of Choice: The Hungarians in Canada, 1957, ; Two Generations of Soviet Man, 1962.