Northern Hungary

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SÁNDOR A. KOSTYA
Sándor A, Kostya was born in Kassa, Hungary on February 26, 1910. After the Trianon Peace Treaty, Kassa became part of the newly created political entity of Czechoslovakia. His early schooling was partly done under the new Czechoslovakian educational system and partly in Hungary at the highschool of St. Stephen at Kalocsa, where he graduated. Advanced academic education was received at universities in Budapest and Szeged. Majoring in Hungárián Literature and Latin, he received his diploma of Education in 1934 from the Pázmány Péter University. In 1936, the Doctorate of Scholastic Philosophy was conferred on him by the University of Szeged. After 1936 until the Second World War he taught Hungárián and Latin Language and literature at Kalocsa and Pécs. During the war, he served as a noncommissioned officer in the reserves. After the war in 1947, the new Hungárián Communist Government revoked the licences of Catholic Separate School teachers and prevented them from... Tovább

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SÁNDOR A. KOSTYA
Sándor A, Kostya was born in Kassa, Hungary on February 26, 1910. After the Trianon Peace Treaty, Kassa became part of the newly created political entity of Czechoslovakia. His early schooling was partly done under the new Czechoslovakian educational system and partly in Hungary at the highschool of St. Stephen at Kalocsa, where he graduated. Advanced academic education was received at universities in Budapest and Szeged. Majoring in Hungárián Literature and Latin, he received his diploma of Education in 1934 from the Pázmány Péter University. In 1936, the Doctorate of Scholastic Philosophy was conferred on him by the University of Szeged. After 1936 until the Second World War he taught Hungárián and Latin Language and literature at Kalocsa and Pécs. During the war, he served as a noncommissioned officer in the reserves. After the war in 1947, the new Hungárián Communist Government revoked the licences of Catholic Separate School teachers and prevented them from teaching. From 1947 until the Hungárián Revolution he had to find menial employment to support his family. The 1956 Revolution brought him back to public view, when he was elected as president of the Revolutionary Council of Józsefváros district of Budapest.
The Soviet intervention and subsequent defeat of the Revolution forced him and
his family to leave Hungary and immigrate to Canada. After the initial difficulties of searching out a living and learning a new language, he vent on to study at the University de Montreal Faculty des lettres. There he received his M.A. tor his thesis "L'lmportance Litterarie et Poiitique du Panslavism" in 1964. Afterwards he taught Latin in Canadian highschools. During this time he established the Association of Hungárián Teachers in Canada. He succesfully formulated and taught from 1965 on a Hungárián Language and Literature course wich became accepted as a credit program at Universities. The Árpád Academy of Cleveland in 1980 awarded him a gold medál for his literary work titled, "Pan-Slavism" Presently he serves on the Board of Directors of the Toronto Hungárián Cultural Centre, where he is alsó the Editor of the "Krónika", a monthly literary magaziné. He is a member of the Árpád Academy, Cleveland, The International P.E.N. Club and the Canadian Hungárián Authors Association, Toronto.
Dr, Kostya is the author of;
Ukrajna, Kalocsa, 1942
Our Dear Mother Tongue, Toronto,
1 959,
The Hungáriám ABC and Reader, Toronto, 1 965,
The Modern Man, Toronto, 1979, The Historic Emergence of Panslavism, Toronto, 1980 Ali in Hungárián.
Pan-Slavism, Toronto, I980. In English. Vissza