Vambéry, Rusztem, 1872-

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)