Dušan Kováč is historian at Institute of Historical Research (Historický ústav), Slovak Academy of Sciences. He was 1990-1998 director of Institute and Vice-President of Slovak Academy of Sciences (2005 – 2009). He is author and editor of numerous books, including Das Scheitern der Verständigung. Tschechen, Deutsche und Slowaken in der Ersten Republik (1994) Die Habsburgermonarchie und die Slowaken (2001), Slovakia in History (2010).
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