Problémy hodnotenia osobnosti Andreja Cvinčeka v slovenskej historiografii
Problems of the Evaluation of Andrej Cvincek’s Personality in the Slovak Historiography

Summary/Abstract: In this article, we try to evaluate the views of the Catholic priest and the politician Andrej Cvincek in the writings of the Slovak historical science, which captures his activities in several processes and events of the Slovak History. However, it is not just about mapping the occurrence of this personality in the professional literature. The main objective of this study is to encourage the development of research into Cvincek's life story, by referring to the problems associated with his position in the Slovak historiography, as an important representative of Slovak political catholicism in the first half of the 20th century. In this work, we chronologically analyze his historiographical evaluation in several historical periods, in which he left his mark in the story of history. We also follow Cvincek's personality based on assessing his activities in political parties, in the Czechoslovak People's Party in the interwar period, in the Democratic Party in the period after World War II, similarly against the background of evaluation of his participation and influence in various important historical events, such as The April agreement, in which he participated as a politically active person. We can evaluate that the state of research of this personality has several shortcomings in Slovak historiography. Knowledge of his activities is very variable in different periods, especially depending on his involvement in political life. Another problem is that the deeper Cvincek biography is basically unexplored in the Slovak historical science. Only the events of which Cvincek was a part are examined. His research in religious and ecclesiastical history is also weaker, where as a Catholic priest and a Nitra canon, he would deserve more attention from Slovak church historians.

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