Egy karrier és egy világkép összeomlása: a román megszállás és Márki Sándor utolsó kolozsvári éve
The Collapse of a Career and a Worldview: The Romanian Occupation and Sándor Márki’s Final Years in Cluj/Kolozsvár

Summary/Abstract: Sándor Márki, a professor in Cluj/Kolozsvár, spent more than a quarter of a century living, teaching, and mentoring in the city. This period marked the peak of his career and the height of his social recognition. These Cluj/Kolozsvár years were the most fulfilling of his life. Throughout his career, Márki never lacked professional and social acknowledgment, but during this period he experienced particular joys: in 1911 he received an invitation to the University of Budapest, which he regretfully declined; in 1912 he was elected a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; in the 1914/1915 academic year he was appointed rector of the University of Cluj; and in 1918 he was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Leopold. However, this sequence of successes came to an end with the conclusion of World War I. At Christmas 1918, the Romanian army entered Cluj/Kolozsvár, initiating a period of persecution for the city’s university professors, including Márki: harassment and humiliation by the Romanian military, financial difficulties, the university’s occupation by Romanian authorities, the failure of efforts to establish a new university, and the threat of expulsion accompanied by total loss of property. For Márki, not only his career but his entire worldview collapsed, and ultimately, broken, he too chose emigration.

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