Alexander the Eagle

* Szeged, January 22, 1887 – † Bratislava, August 23, 1962 / historian, literary historian, associate professor ; ; He graduated from high school and then university in Budapest, where he was a member of the Négyesy Seminary with Mihály Babits, Gyula Juhász, and Béla Balázs. He also earned a doctorate in law and political science. Later, he worked as an educator in the countryside. During the Soviet Republic, he was a college professor in the capital, then emigrated, lived in Vienna, and then moved to Czechoslovakia: a high school teacher in Munkács and then in Bratislava, and from 1957 he was the leading associate professor of the Hungarian Literature Department at the Comenius University in Bratislava. He wrote numerous studies on economic history and literary history, and his monograph on Bratislava during the Reform period remained in manuscript, which was only published after his death. Two other works on the Jews of Bratislava remained in manuscript. The shorter one dealt with the history of the 18th–19th centuries, the longer one with its ordeal between 1939–1945. The latter was later published in print. ; ; His main works: ; The Archive of the Free City of Munkács, 1927, ; Historical and Literary Studies, 1953, ; A Carpathian Latifundium in the Twilight of the Feudal World, 1955, ; The Coronation City – From the Congress of Vienna to the Great March 1815–1848, ; 1973 (a new edition with pictures was published in 1995 under the title Bratislava, the Former Coronation City), ; The Persecution of the Jews of Slovakia 1939–1945, 1993.