book launch: fodor ferenc Önéletírásai [the autobiographical works of ferenc fodor]

the department of history will be hosting a book launch for dr. steven jobbitt's latest publication fodor ferenc Önéletírásai [the autobiographical works of ferenc fodor].

published by elte eötvös józsef collegium (hungary) and co-edited with róbert győri this edited collection of four previously unpublished autobiographical documents by the hungarian geographer ferenc fodor (1887-1962) sheds important light on the life and work of a scholar and public intellectual whose career as a researcher began in the late austro-hungarian period and ended in the early communist era with the publication of his final book in 1957. accompanied by a substantial introduction (in both english and hungarian), this collection makes a significant contribution to the history of hungarian geography, and opens up critical and ultimately timely perspectives on a hungarian intellectual whose work has seen a revival in the context of hungary's post-communist shift to the right.   

join us for the thunder bay launch of the book at the study on 19 october at 12:00 pm.

a pdf version of the book (to facilitate open-access so that the primary materials it contains are readily accessible) can be downloaded at http://honlap.eotvos.elte.hu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fodorferenc.pdf