Oszkár Jászi et l'idée des États-Unis d'Europe
Oszkár Jászi and the idea of the United States of Europe

Summary/Abstract: Oszkár Jászi was a Hungarian social scientist, historian and politician. His ideas and his work were a part of the antecedents of the European Union's construction started twenty-thirty years after the birth of his most important books written about this topic. After his high - school graduation in his hometown, Nagykároly, he studied political science in the University of Budapest. He was graduated in 1896 then entered into the Ministry of Agriculture as a drafting clerk. He wrote several articles of the problems of Hungary and founded a new periodical, the Huszadik Század (Twentieth Century), in 1900. He founded also the Sociological Society one year later and started a political carreer in the Országos Radikális Párt (National Civic Radical Party) founded by him in 1914. He participated in the government of Mihály Károlyi after the October Revolution of 1918 as Minister of Nationalities. He tried to establish of a Danube Confederation of nationalities called Oriental Swiss model. He quieted the country in 1919 and from 1925 was living in the United States of America as teacher at Oberlin College (Ohio) where he died in 1957. A manuscripte hardly known of Jászi is the United States of Europe written in the 1920's and published in 2006. In this work, he has a prophetical image of the evolution of Europe which can be considered very precise in present-day. This study present his carreer and analyses his work.

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