Károly Vekov Explained

Károly Vekov
Birth Date:26 September 1947
Birth Place:Budapest, Second Hungarian Republic
Death Place:Debrecen, Hungary
Nationality:Romanian
Occupation:Historian
Professor

Károly Vekov (26 September 1947 – 7 October 2020) was a Hungarian-Romanian historian and professor.[1] He also served as a politician in Romania as part of the Hungarian community.

Biography

After his secondary studies in Arad, Vekov graduated from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca in 1971. He worked as a researcher at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, working there from 1971 to 1990. A member of Limes Kör, a secret circle of Hungarians in Romania opposed to the Nicolae Ceaușescu regime. He lived in Cluj-Napoca following the Romanian Revolution in 1989 and became a secretary in the national office of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania party. He became a secondary school professor at Brassai Sámuel Líceum, then served as director of the Catholic school Római Katolikus Líceum from 1995 to 2000. He served as a municipal councillor in Cluj-Napoca, Regional Councillor of Cluj County, and a member of the Parliament of Romania from 2000 to 2004.

Károly Vekov died in Debrecen on 7 October 2020 at the age of 73.[2]

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Elhunyt Vekov Károly kolozsvári politikus és történész. 7 October 2020. ErdélyiNapló.ro. Hungarian.
  2. Web site: Részvétnyilvánítás: Elhunyt Vekov Károly történész. 9 October 2020. Erdon. Hungarian.