István Szokolszky

* Besztercebánya, August 20, 1915 – † Budapest, February 22, 1968 / teacher, one of the active organizers of the NÉKOSZ movement ; ; His father, Rezső Szokolszky (Kisszeben, February 8, 1873 – Veszprém, October 15, 1948) was a Hungarian royal inspector of education and founder-editor of the newspaper Magyar Iskola published in Besztercebánya. Since he refused to take the oath to the Czechoslovak State in 1919, he fled to Hungary with his family, first trying to find a living in Miskolc, and finally managing to settle in Veszprém. István Szokolszky completed his elementary and secondary school studies here. Already as a high school student, he was primarily interested in languages, so he obtained a Hungarian-German teaching diploma at the Pázmány Péter University in Budapest in 1938. He became a high school teacher in Rozsnyón, which had meanwhile returned to Hungary. During this time, he also performed military service and was even briefly a prisoner of war. In December 1945, he was sent back to Veszprém, where he became one of the founders of the National Association of People's Dormitories (NÉKOSZ). He learned a lot from Makarenko's teaching and work. After 1949, he first became an employee of the National Student Welfare and Dormitory Office, and then was appointed a teacher at the Pécs Pedagogical College. ; In 1957, as an employee of the Methodology Department of the Pedagogical Institute, he primarily dealt with didactic issues. From 1967 until his death, he worked as an associate professor at the Department of Pedagogy at the Budapest University of Technology. His university textbook on didactics (Didactics for technical teachers) was published after his death.