I. Tóth Zoltán társadalomszemlélete
Zoltán I Tóth’s View of Society

Summary/Abstract: The essay is published in the memory of Zoltán Tóth, the eminent social historian, the member of the Korall advisory board, our professor and friend, who passed away on 16 March 2015 at the age of 72. Zoltán Tóth’s most recent work was the social historical biography of his father, Zoltán I Tóth (1911–1956), an outstanding historian, who was killed in the 1956 revolution. The present essay, based on a conference paper, was part of this research. Zoltán I Tóth came from Temesvár (now Timisoara) and graduated at the University of Kolozsvár (now Cluj Napoca), where he read history, geography and Protestant theology. Following his studies, he worked as a teacher in Szatmárnémeti (now Satu Mare). He began his work at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest only after the end of the Second World War. Besides the strong influence of Croce, his view of society was determined by the multiethnic realities of his homeland. His entire oeuvre was openly political apologetics for the peaceful and dignified cohabitation of the societies and ethnicities of small nations in the central European region.

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