Átértékelések. Egy fogalom historiográfiai útvesztői a 20. században
Transvaluations. A Concept and its Meanders through 20th-Century Historiography

Summary/Abstract: In the autumn of 2010, a history conference entitled “Történelmi átértékelés” (Historical Transvaluation) was organized in Székesfehérvár. Timed to coincide with the 125th anniversary of the birth of Bálint Hóman, the symposium aimed at paving the way for the rehabilitation of the historian and politician. The conference title was borrowed from a lecture written by Hóman in 1930, in which keeping his ideological motives hidden in the background he identified two possible reasons for transvaluation: “There are two sorts of reasons that may justify the transvaluation of historical phenomena: either an expansion in the availability of historical sources, an emergence of new data and a new interpretation of the old ones, or the emergence of new points of view in research that arise from the application of new methods of inquiry either unknown to, or ignored by, the historians of the past.” The concept of transvaluation provoked a lively discussion and played a key role in Hungarian historiography on several occasions until the change of the political regime in 1990. The article follows the practice of Hungarian historiography related to the conceptual construct of “transvaluation” throughout the 20th century

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