Victor Samuel Mamatey

Background

Mamatey was born in North Braddock, Pennsylvania. His father, Albert Mamatey, was a Slovak immigrant to the United States, active in Slovak immigrant organizations in the United States.

Education

Subsequently he earned a diploma from the Comenius University in Bratislava, and then completed his undergraduate work at the University of Chicago, before earning his Master of Arts from Harvard University.

Career

Spent his childhood years in Bratislava. In 1942 enlisted into the United States Army Air Corps and served in the China-India-Burma theatre. After demobilization, enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris where he earned his Doctor of Philosophy title.

In 1949 moved to Tallahassee, Florida, to accept a faculty position with the history department at Florida State University.

He was promoted to chairman of the department in 1964. In 1967 he moved to the University of Georgia.

At the University of Georgia he assumed the duties of research professor and served for a year in 1972 and 1973 as acting dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. In 1984 he retired. A recognized expert in East European history, authored, co-authored and edited a number of books and other publications on the subject. supported the University Library in Bratislava, Slovakia, to which he regularly sent large volumes of books on Slavic studies he had collected.

The University Library in Bratislava maintains a Library of Victor South. died in Tallahassee, Florida.

Library of Victor South.

Achievements

• He earned an American Historical Association George Louis Beer Prize and a Guggenheim fellowship.

Works

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  • Rise of the Hapsburg Empire, 1526-1815 (Berkshire studies in history)

    (This is a general outline of the rise of the Habsburg emp...)

  • The United States and East Central Europe: A Study in Wilsonian Diplomacy and Propaganda
  • The United States and East Central Europe, 1914-1918: A Study in Wilsonian Diplomacy and Propaganda
  • The United States and east central Europe, 1914-1918

Connections

Father:

Albert Paul Mamatey

Mother:

Ola (Darnek) Mamatey

Spouse:

Denise M. Perronne

child:

Peter V. Mamatey

child:

Albert R. Mamatey