Endre Kovacs

* Paks, 19 May 1911 – † Budapest, 18 April 1985 / historian, writer, literary historian ; ; He came to Bratislava at the age of three and completed his school studies there. He obtained a teaching certificate in Hungarian philosophy at the University of Bratislava in 1935. He taught in Bratislava in 1937–1938, and then, following the Vienna decision, he became a teacher at the Pázmány Péter Gymnasium in Érsekújvár, where he taught until the end of World War II. From 1939, he also edited the Érsekújvár és vidéke newspaper. In the 1930s, he took an active role in the Sickle movement, later writing several studies and books about it. He published poems in his youth, and later began to deal with scientific topics. After 1945, he lived in Hungary and primarily dealt with Hungarian-Slovak, Hungarian-Russian, Hungarian-Polish and Hungarian-Czech cultural, political and literary relations. He also edited anthologies of fiction from translations of works by Polish and Czech writers. He wrote his memoirs in two volumes, of which Korszakváltás was published in the early 1980s (in 1981), the second part is currently closed. ; ; His main works: ; Between Wars, 1944, ; Hungarian-South Slavic Reconciliation Efforts in 1848–49, 1958, ; The Polish Question in Reform-era Hungary, 1959, ; The History of Polish Literature, 1960, ; Reymont, 1961, ; The University of Krakow and Hungarian Culture, 1964, ; The Kossuth migration and the European freedom movements, 1967, ; Hungarian-Polish relations between the two world wars, 1972, ; Hungarians and Poles in the stream of history, 1976, ; Historical portraits, 1976, ; Face to face with history, 1977, ; The nationality question in old Hungary, 1977, ; Sienkiewicz, 1980.