A Professorial Career Forced Aside: Rev. Mihály Lőrinczi’s Life and Service Cover Image

Mellékvágányra kényszerített tanári életpálya. Lőrinczi Mihály élete és egyházszolgálata
A Professorial Career Forced Aside: Rev. Mihály Lőrinczi’s Life and Service

Author(s): Elek Rezi
Subject(s): History of Church(es), Theology and Religion
Published by: Erdélyi Unitárius Egyház
Keywords: church history; congregation; duty; Hungarian Revolution; secret police; Securitate; prison; service; theology; Unitarian Church; Youth Organization; Mihály Lőrinczi (1911–1991)

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on research into Mihály Lőrinczi’s (1911–1991) life and service as a Unitarian minister and theology professor. It includes the circumstances of his arrest by the Romanian secret police (Securitate) after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, his imprisonment, his difficult years in prison, his release from prison, after which he was not allowed to continue teaching, and then his service in a small Unitarian congregation until his retirement. The article concludes with some reflections on his life and work.

  • Issue Year: 128/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 42-57
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Hungarian
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