Tamás Szmrecsányi

Tamás Szmrecsányi
Personal details
Born	1936 Budapest, Hungary
Died	16 February 2009
Cause of death	Pancreatic cancer
Alma mater	University of Sao Paulo, State University of Campinas, Oxford University

Tamás József Károly Márton Szmrecsányi (1936 – 2009) was a Brazilian economist, historian and professor.^[1]

He fled as a child with his family as a refugee to Brazil when he was 14 years old, fleeing from the conflict of World War II. He studied philosophy at the University of Sao Paulo, earned a doctoral degree and a post-doctorate in economics at the State University of Campinas and the University of Oxford, respectively. He has written not only on economics, but also on the History of Brazil,^[2] Agricultural Economics, History of Economic Thought and the History of Science. He has worked as a professor in the State University of Campinas and gave classes in France and Ecuador for many years until his death.^[3]

Szmrecsányi had been the founder of the Association of Research in Economic History of Brazil in 1993, and has worked with other known economists of hist time, such as Wilson Suzigan, Flávio Saes, Luiz Carlos Soares, and others.^[4]

He died at 72 years of age from Pancreatic cancer, and was survived by three of his children.^[5]

References

1. "Lattes Curriculum for Tamás Szmrecsányi". (translated from Portuguese into English) "...Tamás József Márton Károly Szmrecsányi graduated in Philosophy and Master in Economics...He has experience in planning and management. His publications focus on Economic History, the History of Economic Thought, Agricultural Economics and the Environment. He possesses a wide array of experience in editing books and magazines...More than 100 works have been published. He is a founding member and leader of the academic professional associations of economics."
2. Tamás Szmrecsányi; José Roberto do Amaral Lapa (1996). História econômica da independência e do império. EdUSP. ISBN 978-85-314-0690-4.
3. "Homage to Brazilian-Hungarian Historian". (translated from French into English) "...Born in Hungary, Tamás Szmrecsányi fled as a child with his family to Brazil after the Second World War. After studying philosophy at the University of São Paulo (1961), the most cosmopolitan of Brazilian universities, he earned a doctoral degree (1976) and post-doctorate in economics at the State University of Campinas (São Paulo) and in the University of Oxford (1990). He has researched on the economic History of Brazil of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the cultivation of sugar cane and produced authoritative works on history of Brazil and abroad. We owe him books and articles on these topics, some of which that were published in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Belgium, the United States and England..."
4. "Tamás József Károly Szmrecsányi (1936-2009)".(translated from Brazilian Portuguese into English) "... Professor Tamás had been the founder of the Association of Research in Economic History of Brazil (AREHB), mostly due to his personal engagement and his capacity of the gathering of important representatives of the areas of Economics and History, such as Wilson Suzigan, Flávio Saes, Fernando Novaes, Eulália Lobo and Luiz Carlos Soares.
5. "Orbituary of Tamás Szmrecsányi". Folha de Sao Paulo (subscription may be required). (his orbituary, translated from Brazilian Portuguese into English) "...Besides Working in Unicamp, he has given classes in France and Ecuador. He has founded and hosted the Association of Researches of the Economic History of Brazil. "He had lived according to humanist principles that put others first before himself", his wife said. He died on a Monday, at 72 years of age, a victim of Pancreatic Cancer."