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István Szőcs, writer, editor, cultural historian and full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA), died at the age of 93.
István Szőcs, Cluj-Napoca writer, editor and cultural historian, full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA), died at the age of 92. The defining genre of his work is vigorous literary journalism and an essay with a scientific but readable and subjective tone. The number of his articles and critiques dealing with hundreds, perhaps thousands of literature, his extraordinary readability, and his broad level of literacy are also especially evident in his writings on cultural history, in which the history and history of language, prehistory , the psychology of language and etymology are inextricably intertwined. An important part of his multifaceted work is his contribution to the renewal of Hungarian book publishing in Romania.
István Szőcs completed his elementary and secondary studies in his hometown, Târgu Mureş, and graduated from Reformed College. He completed his higher education at the University of Cluj-Napoca, and in 1951 he obtained a master’s degree in pedagogy and psychology. He began his career at the Youth Book Publishing House between 1958 and 1968 as Editor of Our Way, between 1968 and 1989 as Editor of Forward, and retired in 1989. From the mid-1990s he was Senior Research Fellow at the Helikon in Cluj -Napoca. Since its first publications, since the mid-1950s, István Szőcs has been present in literary life mainly for literary and theater criticism and essays on literary history for more than three decades. His literary and theatrical criticisms, essays on the history of culture, and linguistic debates are a special color in Hungarian literature in Transylvania. He has published more than two thousand journalistic writings. His masterpiece a Silk mud boat He kept his book, several editions and extensions, in which he impressively mobilized his knowledge of prehistory, archeology, comparative linguistics, astronomy, mythology and psychology, systematized over decades. He published the works of classical Hungarian writers of the 20th century (Mihály Babits, Dezső Kosztolányi, Sándor Makkai, Károly Kós, etc.) with notes and introductions. István Szőcs was actively involved in political and public affairs. He faced various conflicts in defense of the Hungarians: among other things, he emphatically defended in journalistic writings the restoration of the long-standing Hungarian grammar schools (lyceums), protested against the extremely nationalistic city leadership of the mayor of Cluj- Napoca, Gheorghe Funar. He stirred up the biggest nationally bloated political scandal on a television broadcast in which he refuted the Dacian-Romanian continuity theory. In November 2012, it was revealed that he was recruited by the Securitate during communism – read the MMA statement.
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