Gábor Tánczos

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Tánczos Gábor ( Budapest, 1928 . April 2 - Budapest, 1979 . December 6 ), professor, politician.

He grew up in Baja, and graduated at the Cistercian High School. His father died as a labor serviceman during World War II and was deported ( 1944 ). After returning home, he entered the Hungarian Communist Party, where he became a youth leader. He came to Budapest and, as one of the youngest members of the Győrffy István People's College, began his graduate studies. He worked as a functionalist in the Student Association and the Workers' Youth Federation (DISz). During a vigilance campaign he was removed from the apparatus ( 1951 ). The Eötvös Loránd University Philosophygraduated with a Master's degree ( 1953 ). Prior to his political rehabilitation, he worked as a lecturer at the ELTE ( 1953 - 1954 ) and as a teacher at the DISz College. He was the secretary of the Petőfi Circle (1955-1956), and Imre Nagy became a fan. It was first and foremost a matter of personality and activity that the disagreements within the DIS were transformed into an opposition forum with a historic role in the preparation of the 1956 Revolution.

When the revolution was suppressed, he was given a shelter at the Yugoslav Embassy together with the Imre Nagy group. He was deported to Romania together with the group and sentenced to 15 years in prison ( August 1958 ). Released with amnesia (1962). Married, his wife is Vera Bácskai, a renowned city historian. [1] Employed in the Evening High School of Workers, taught here ( 1962 - 1970 ), and began to deal with reading sociology. He joined the National Institute of Pedagogy (OPI) (1970). The folk dormitory movement, the National Association of People's Colleges, became involved(NEMKOSZ), interested in the history of the Transylvanian Hungarian and Hungarian Gypsy minorities. Prior to his death, he joined the Hungarian protesters against the rhetoric of the Charter '77 movement.

He became a suicide because of his escalating depression (December 6, 1979).