Nemzeti kisebbség – egy gondolati modell születése az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchiában és a nemzetközi jogban
National Minority: The Birth of a Theoretical Model in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and in the International Law

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the notion of minority from two perspectives. First, it examines the evolution of minority protection in international politics and in legislation since the 19th century until the minority treaties following World War I. Second, it reviews the legal tradition of the 19th-century Habsburg Empire which was searching to resolve the issue of minorities within the empire. The paper examines how the international law and legislation was able to merge these two different traditions after 1918, and argues that the term ˝national minority˝ was missing from the vocabulary of legal theory and practice until 1918. By analyzing the debates of the Austrian and Hungarian parliaments, the paper points out that the old and new interpretations of the term existed next to each other in the Habsburg Empire in 1918.

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