Nemzetépítő erdészek : Nacionalizmus a magyar erdészetben, 1862-1913 = Nation-Building Foresters : Nationalism in Hungarian Forestry, 1862–1913

Balogh, Róbert and Homor, Péter (2025) Nemzetépítő erdészek : Nacionalizmus a magyar erdészetben, 1862-1913 = Nation-Building Foresters : Nationalism in Hungarian Forestry, 1862–1913. TÖRTÉNELMI SZEMLE, 67 (1). pp. 105-126. ISSN 0040-9634

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Abstract

The study analyses the intertwining of land-use, modernisation, scientific knowledge and nationalism through the example of forestry in Hungary. Between the 1860s and the outbreak of the First World War, professional forestry was linked to nationalism by two issues. On the one hand, there was the emergence of a Hungarian-speaking professional with the development of Hungarian as a professional language on the top of their agenda. The other reason for the encounter of nationalism and forestry was that many centres of forestry were outside the Hungarian-speaking area. In this paper, the contrasts between the management of the local population and the Hungarian state’s programmatic pursuit of modernisation are outlined in the context of the vision of the professionals sent to investigate the flood disasters of the southern region in the 1910s. The motives behind the attitude of foresters towards nationalism and the spectrum of these attitudes are then captured by describing the milieu of higher professional education and the role of the National Forestry Association (= OEE). The efforts of the OEE to develop a Hungarian forestry language and the relationship of the Academy of Forestry at Selmecbánya to Magyarization highlight the complex relationship between professional and national identity.

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