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Title: Rusztem Vambéry Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1887-1948
Collection number: 75089
Creator:
Vambéry, Rusztem, 1872-
Collection Size:
Number of Containers: 9 manuscript boxes
(3.75 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, and printed matter, relating to criminology, Hungarian domestic and foreign
affairs, Hungarian- American relations, and Hungarian emigres in the U.S.
Language:
Hungarian and
English.
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[Identification of item], Rusztem Vambéry Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1975.
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of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Crime and criminals
Hungarians--United States
Hungary
Hungary--Foreign relations--United States
Hungary--Politics and government
United States--Foreign relations
United States--Foreign relations--Hungary
Diplomats--Hungary
| 1872 | Born, Budapest, Hungary |
| 1897 | Admitted to the Bar of Budapest |
| 1899-1913 | Judge to the Court of Appeals and attached to the Department of Bill Drafting at the Ministry of Justice |
| 1902 | Reader in criminal law, Law School at the University of Budapest |
| 1905 | Secretary of Juridical Society |
| 1908-1921 | Professor of Law, Law School at the University of Budapest |
| 1913-1939 | Editor, Jogtudományi Koezloeny (Law Gazette) |
| 1914 | Vice Chairman of the liberal Kossuth Party |
| 1918 | Member of the National Council during th October Revolution |
| 1922-1938 | Practiced law (defended Mátyás Rákosi and other political prisoners of the left, lectured in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and England) |
| 1924-1939 | Founder and editor in chief of Századunk ( Our Century, a journal of sociology) |
| 1938 | Immigrated to the United States of America |
| 1939-? | Professor at the New School of Social Research, in New York |
| 1939- | President of Committee for New Democratic Hungary |
| 1941?-1945 | Special Advisor to the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the British Information Service on Hungarian matters |
| 1946-1948 | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States (appointed September 6, 1946 and resigned May 19, 1948) |