Kálmán Hamar (October 12, 1928 – June 11, 1989) was a Hungarian historian from Slovakia. He was a professor at the Marx-Lenin Institute of the Bratislava College of Economics, and served as president of the Hungarian Historical Society of Czechoslovakia.
Biography From 1960 to 1963, Hamar was the head of the Hungarian editorial office of the Slovakian Pedagogical Book Publisher (textbook publisher) in Bratislava where he taught Hungarian.New Salt November 3, 1959, 5; January 16, 1960, 7Forum Social Science Review 2007/1, 173.
Hamar was a professor at the Marx-Lenin Institute of the Bratislava College of Economics.A Hét 16/18, 3 (May 7, 1971) Cf. February 5 and 21, March 26, May 28
He was first a member of the Bratislava city committee of Csemadok,Új Só April 25, 1970, 2. and then its president.A Hét 21/2, 4 (1976. January 13.) From 1970, he was the first president of the Hungarian Historical Society of Czechoslovakia.Fórum Társadalomtudományi Szemle 2009/2, 103-104.
Hamar primarily dealt with labor movement topics considered important at the time,László Bese 2016: Changes in the memory of the Battle of Komárom in 1919. In: Multi-ethnic worlds in Central Europe, 1867-1944. 145.
He is interred in the urn cemetery in Lamac.
Critics Some criticism was related to his works failing to comply with archived materials.László Fogarassy 1983: Corrective statement. Literary Review 1983/3, 288.
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