László Szarka
László Szarka (*1953 in Galanta, Czechoslovakia) is a Hungarian historian.Szarka studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University in Bratislava; worked at the Institute of Historical Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS); in 1977 he was sent to Budapest to the single-post branch of the SAS.
In 1978 Szarka applied for Hungarian citizenship and got employed in the Committee on History at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS); he became the director of the Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities at HAS after the institute was founded in 2001.
An [http://www.hullamvadasz.hu/index.php3?tanulmany=667&enciklopedia=1 interview with Szarka] (in Hungarian). Provided by Wikipedia