Vambéry, Rusztem, 1872-

Dates:
Birth 1872

Biographical notes:

Biographical Note

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 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)

From the guide to the Rusztem Vambéry Papers, 1887-1948, (Hoover Institution Archives)

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Subjects:

  • Crime and criminals

Occupations:

  • Diplomats

Places:

  • United States (as recorded)
  • Hungary (as recorded)

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