Moór Gyula a napisajtóban

Varga, Csaba (2017) Moór Gyula a napisajtóban. IUSTUM AEQUUM SALUTARE, 13 (1). pp. 155-174. ISSN 1787-3223

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JULIUS MOÓR AS REFLECTED IN THE DAILY PRESS The philosopher of law Julius Moór (1888–1950), born at Brassó and educated in Kolozsvár (now Brașov resp. Cluj in Romania), became professor at Szeged and in Budapest, respectively. His scholarly achievement and reflections on daily issues, including the danger of bolshevism and national socialism, as well as the position of the Christian teaching, were all reported by the daily press, for his position as metropolitan rector, member of the Parliament’s Upper House, president of the Academy of Sciences, made him a public figure. Accordingly, part of his lifetime oeuvre as well as part of scholarly and political reactions to it are to be reconstructed from dailies. In the interwar period his democratism and balanced opinion with search for understanding in the depth were welcome by the leftist press as well. After the war, in the shadow of the coming communist putch in 1948, however, by the same position he became a number one target as ennemy of so called democratic progress. Eventually, his parliamentary speech unveiling the logic behind the tactics of leftist forces ended in his immediate expulsion from academic life and eradication from professional memory. Now press research reveals that the same destiny was shared by his father, a Hungarian pastor of a tiny Hungarian congregation in the Saxonian Transylvanian self-governing Lutheran church community, within the bonds of the Kingdom of Hungary.

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