Jakabffy és Mikó (1930–1973)
Elemér Jakabffy and Imre Mikó (1930-1977)

Summary/Abstract: This essay is based on the cooperation of two determining ethnic minority politicians and historiographers of the 20th Century, Elemér Jakabffy (1881–1963) and Imre Mikó (1911–1977). Jakabffy was a Member of the Hungarian Parliament before World War I. He remained at his homeland in Banat after the eastern part of Hungary was annexed to Romania. He became a vice president and a parliament delegate of the Romanian Hungarian Party and founded in 1922 a journal of minority studies called Magyar Kisebbség (Hungarian Minority, published until 1942). Young Mikó associated with his work as a student. Jakabffy appreciated his well-known work (Az erdélyi falu és a nemzetiségi kérdés, The Transylvanian village and nationality issues, 1932) very highly, and commissioned Mikó to be a columnist in his review later. It was also Mikó who directed the Bucharest bureau of Jakabffy’s party and became also a Member of Parliament after North-Transylvania was re-annexed to Hungary. Jakabffy stayed in South-Transylvania again and had to face losing his estate and library (which was destroyed) and being interned after the war. Mikó was deported to the Soviet Union and had to live as an excluded person under very diffi cult circumstances after his return home. He immortalized his ideal Jakabffy’s memory in the 1970’s.

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