Lőrinc Péter

Source of the photo: Üzenet. 1983/3.

He attended secondary school in Orsova and Pancevo, and began his university studies at the Faculty of Humanities in Budapest. He obtained his teaching qualification in Belgrade in 1924. From 1916 to 1918, he fought on the Russian and Italian fronts. Due to his anti-war poems (Lány és béke [Girl and Peace], 1918), he was court-martialed but acquitted. During the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he was a member of the socialist university students' organization. After its fall, he emigrated to Pancevo. He became involved in the work of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Between 1920 and 1921, he lived in Pecs. From 1921 to 1924, he taught Hungarian, German, and Serbian in secondary schools in Veliki Beckerek and Bela Crkva. From 1924 to 1927, he was transferred to Gornji Milanovac, Serbia. Between 1927 and 1930, he taught in Pancevo, and between 1930 and 1936, in Veliki Beckerek. In 1936, as a punishment, he was transferred to Bitola, Macedonia. He retired in 1939, then was reactivated. From 1939 to 1940, he lived in Subotica, serving as a soldier in Macedonia. In 1941, he was transferred to Kotor. During the war, he was captured near Belgrade and sent to prisoner-of-war camps in Germany. He was liberated in February 1945, and in April, he arrived in Subotica. Between 1945 and 1946, he was the organizer of history education and minority language teaching in the Serbian ministry. From 1946 to 1949, he worked in the same position in Novi Sad. Between 1949 and 1959, he was a professor at the Teacher Training College. As a retiree, he taught social sciences and Hungarian history at the Department of Hungarian Studies in Novi Sad. In 1957, he founded the Historical Society of Vojvodina, serving as its president for 17 years. He is featured (as Arpad Lang) in the Vajdasági magyar írók almanachja (Almanac of Vojvodina Hungarian Writers, 1924), in the anthology Téglák, barázdák (Bricks, Furrows), and (as Lang) in Márciusi zsoltár (March Psalm, 1973), a selection presenting Hungarian avant-garde poetry from Yugoslavia.