István Révay, Count

* Tajnasári, May 6, 1899 – † Vienna, October 30, 1989 / historian, demographer, politician, journalist ; ; His maternal grandfather, Count Gyula Szapáry (1832–1905), was the Prime Minister of Hungary. His younger brother was Count József Révay. He graduated from the Academy of Economics in Magyaróvár in 1920. After that, he farmed on his estate in the Highlands and in the years between the two World Wars became actively involved in Hungarian political and public life in Czechoslovakia. He was the founding president of the Czechoslovak Hungarian Physical Education Association (1927–1934) and the executive president of the Hungarian Cultural Association of Slovenia (1936–1938). After the Vienna Decision (1938), he remained in Slovakia for a while, and was elected executive chairman of the United Hungarian Party at the Komárom congress on January 19, 1939. He moved to Budapest in 1941, and from then on he was a member of the Upper House of the Hungarian Parliament until 1944. In 1941 he also became a member of the Hungarian Statistical Society. As an expert on nationalities and minorities, he was the director of the Teleki Pál Institute in Budapest between 1945 and 1949. He participated as an expert in the Hungarian peace delegation. In 1949 he left for the West. After Norway, he settled in the USA. He participated in the work of the Hungarian National Committee from its establishment. Between 1951 and 1958 he worked in the research department of the Free Europe Committee. After moving to Austria in 1967, he worked as a historian on the problems of the Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Carpatho-Ukraine. His studies on this subject were published in the Catholic Review, the New Horizon, and the Handbuch der europäischen Volksgruppen series (1970). He was buried in Korneuburg near Vienna. ; ; His main works: ; The organization and activities of Hungarian sports in Czechoslovakia in 1933, 1934, ; The Hungarian–Slovak border in Belvedere, 1941, ; Csallóköz nationalities statistical maps based on data from 1773, 1830, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1946, ; Hungarian minorities under Communist rule, 1958; Hungarians in Czechoslovakia (with others), 1959; Hungarians in Transylvania, 1963; The situation in Transylvania, 1966; The current situation of Hungarian minorities, 1973.