Endre Sík
Endre Sík | |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary | |
In office 15 February 1958 – 13 September 1961 | |
Preceded by | Imre Horváth |
Succeeded by | János Péter |
Personal details | |
Born | Budapest, Austria-Hungary | 2 April 1891
Died | 10 April 1978 Budapest, Hungarian People's Republic | (aged 87)
Political party | MKP, MDP, MSZMP |
Children | Igor |
Relatives | Sándor Sík (brother) |
Profession | politician, jurist, historian, writer |
Endre Sík (2 April 1891 – 10 April 1978) was a Hungarian historian, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1958 and 1961. He was the younger brother of the priest Sándor Sík who was also a poet and piarist teacher.
During the First World War he was captured by the Russians. After that he lived in the Soviet Union. In 1920, he joined the Soviet Communist Party. In 1945, he returned to Hungary, and became a communist politician. He was deputy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs (1954–1958), then minister (1958–1961).
In his scientific work, he studied the history of African ethnic groups. He obtained the Doctor of Sciences degree of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1962.
His book, Vihar a levelet, containing his recollections on the Soviet Union in the 1930s, was banned and withdrawn immediately after appearance.[1]
Works
[edit]- Fekete Afrika története I–IV (The history of Black Africa), Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1961–1973.
- Vihar a levelet, Zrínyi Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 1970.
References
[edit]- ^ Amikor a könyvtárba a politika jön látogatóba[permanent dead link], OGYK Hirlevél
- 1891 births
- 1978 deaths
- Writers from Budapest
- Hungarian prisoners of war
- Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war in World War I
- World War I prisoners of war held by Russia
- Institute of Red Professors alumni
- Historians of Africa
- Hungarian communists
- Foreign ministers of Hungary
- Hungarian expatriates in the Soviet Union
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Hungarian Africanists
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Recipients of the Lenin Peace Prize
- Burials at Kerepesi Cemetery
- Hungarian politician stubs