This article looks at the careers of two school-founding Hungarian historians and university professors, the reconstruction, interpretation and comparison of their perceptions of history, their views on the role of the historiographer, and their opinions on the history of Jews in Hungary. Since both openly professed to be Hungarian Jews, I also try to find out what that meant for them. My interpretive frame follows the ‘speech-act’ approach of the Cambridge contextual school of the history of ideas, the description of notions of meaning/attribution of meaning, and the ‘drama triangle’ (the identification of the traumatized roles of the victim, persecutor and rescuer) in the literature of trauma elaboration.

本文着眼于两位创办学校的匈牙利历史学家和大学教授的职业生涯，他们对历史观念的重构、解释和比较，他们对历史学家角色的看法，以及他们对匈牙利犹太人历史的看法。由于两人都公开声称自己是匈牙利犹太人，我也试图找出这对他们意味着什么。我的解释框架遵循剑桥思想史语境学派的“言语-行为”方法、意义概念的描述/意义归属，以及“戏剧三角”（对受害者受创伤角色的识别，迫害者和救助者）在创伤阐述的文献中。