Vambéry, Rusztem, 1872-
Biographical Note
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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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