Dušan Kováč (born 3 January 1942) is a Slovak historian and writer. He specializes in Slovak and Central European history of the 19th and 20th centuries, the author or co-author of several synthetic works about Slovak history. The head of the Institute of History of the

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(1990-1998), the scientific secretary of the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (since 1998). The member of several Slovak and foreign scientific organisations like the Collegium Carolinum in

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. He is a brother of the Slovak ex-president

Michal Kováč Michal Kováč (3 August 1930 – 5 October 2016) was the first president of Slovakia, having served from 1993 through 1998. Early life Kováč was born in the village of Ľubiša in then Czechoslovakia in 1930. He graduated from the present ...

Selected works

* 1979 Od Dvojspolku k anšlusu rom the Double Alliance to the Anschluss* 1991 Nemecko a nemecká menšina na Slovensku 1871-1945 ermany and the German Minority in Slovakia 1871-1945* 1992 Slovenské dejiny lovak History(co-author) * 1992 History and Politics * 1995 Slovensko v Rakúsko-Uhorsku lovakia in Austria-Hungary* 1997 Slováci. Česi. Dejiny he Slovaks. The Czechs. History* 1998 Dejiny Slovenska istory of Slovakia* 1998 Kronika Slovenska 1 hronicle of Slovakia 1(co-author) * 1999 Kronika Slovenska 2 hronicle of Slovakia 2(co-author)

Awards

* Pribina Cross, II. class (President of the Slovak Republic)

External links

Dušan Kováč at osobnosti.sk
(Slovak) {{DEFAULTSORT:Kovac, Dusan 1942 births 20th-century Slovak historians Living people Herder Prize recipients People from Humenné