Andrej Sirácky

Andrej Sirácky (9 December 1900 – 29 September 1988) was a Slovak sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and communist official.

Biography After graduating from the grammar school in Vrbas in 1921, he applied to study philosophy at Charles University in Prague, which he finished with a doctorate in 1926.

During his studies in Prague, he met Slovak left-wing intellectuals and students and became a founding member of the DAV group. After completing his studies, he returned home to Petrovac in Vojvodina, where he taught with a break at the Slovak gymnasium until 1941. He participated in the Slovak resistance during World War II and was imprisoned in Budapest. After his release, he briefly worked as an editor of the journal Slovenská jednota. In August 1948, he moved to Slovakia, where he began working at Comenius University and from 1953 to 1955 he was its rector. Sirácky was also chairman of the Slovak Academy of Sciences from 1955 to 1961. He successively obtained the academic titles of docent and professor and scientific academician of SAV. He was also as academician of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.

Selection of his works:

Sila slov a myšlienok (Power of Words and Ideas). Petrovac, 1943 Umierajúca civilizácia (The Dying Civilization). Petrovac, 1946 Kultúra a mravnost' (Culture and Morality). Bratislava, 1949. Klérofašistická ideólogia ľudáctva (Clero-fascist ideology of humanity) Bratislava, 1955. Sociológia a intergrácia vied (Sociology and the integration of the sciences). Bratislava, 1968 Sociálny svet človeka (The Social World of Man). Bratislava, 1974.