I. Tóth Zoltán

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I. Zoltán Tóth, less often Inokai Tóth Zoltán (Versec, 11 August 1911 - Budapest, October 25, 1956), historian, academician, dean of the Faculty of History of ELTE, the martyr of the 1956 Revolution.

He was born in Bánság, where everyday life included the coexistence of Hungarians, Romanians, Serbs and Swabians. He finished his high school in the Piarist Grammar School in Temesvár in Hungarian, but he had to pass the matriculation examination in Romanian (1929). He studied at the Ferdinand University of Cologne, Cologne, in Kolozsvár, but at the same time he studied reformed theology and even studied music. During his university years she worked in IKE and joined the Transylvanian Youth Movement.

After the Second World War, he worked at the Institute of History, first of all by the Teleki Institute and by 1947 as the Eastern European Scientific Institute. In 1948 he was habilitated as a private teacher and then was assigned to the History Institute of the Soviet Union and the People's Democracies Department in the Institute of History in 1949. A year later, he organized a nationality community in the classroom. In 1952 he was awarded the Kossuth Prize. In 1953 he was promoted to the new department of the Eötvös Loránd University (the history of the people's democratic countries) and became the dean of the self-defended Historical Faculty. In 1956 he was elected a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In these years, as the Vice Chairman of the Hungarian Historical Society, the chairman of the Hungarian Historical Section of the Hungarian Historical Society, as the Hungarian Standing Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, was an active part in the elaboration of the science policy represented by these bodies.

During the 1956 revolution, he tried to mediate between revolutionary youth and power. On October 25, 1956, during the massacre at Kossuth Square, he led a pre-announced delegation to the party center near the Parliament at the Academy Street to tell what the demonstrators wanted. But near the gate of the building, Soviet bullets were killed.