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IN MEMORIAM VICTOR SEGESVARY

My husband, Victor Segesvary, worked for the United
Nations Organization since 1971. His first three posts of
long doctor Dear Sirs,

My husband worked for the United Nations Organization
since 1971. His first three posts of long duration were
Algeria, Kabul and Bamako. After having left Mali he
worked in New York as a consultant for the UN, giving
advice to governmental institutions all over the world. At the
same time he was writing and publishing books and articles
as well as lecturing. I worked in the Office of Legal Affairs,
NY for nineteen years.

We left New York in 2003 and relocated in Switzerland,
Lugano, where we lived twelve years. Three years ago we moved to Hungary, my
husband’s country of origin.
My husband had left Hungary after the 1956 Revolution. At the end of his life he was
homesick. He wanted to return to his country, the country where he was born and
raised.

On 21 August 2018 he died at the age of 89.

The obituary notice in the link was done by HEI (Institut de Hautes Etudes
Internationales, University of Geneva) where my late husband had studied and made
his first doctor degree in political sciences.

He obtained his second doctor degree, D.D. (Doctor Divinitatis) also in Geneva, at the
Faculty of Protestant Theology. The title of the thesis in theology reads:
L’Islam et la Réforme. Etude sur l’attitude des Réformateurs zurichois envers
l’Islam (1510-1550).

It brings to light a little known but essential moment in the relations between Islam and
Christianity: the history of the 1542 publication of the Quaran in Latin, in Venice and in
Basel. This research relates the origins of European attitudes of tolerance.

There are probably very few people in the United Nations Organization who remember
my husband as he was very old when he died. I ask the favor to put an obituary notice
in the AAFI/AFICS Bulletin, Geneva because my husband was part of the Organization
for so many years, the first twelve years full-time in Algeria, Kabul and Bamako,
afterwards as a consultant.
Monika Segesvary
Balassi balint utca 9-11. 2. Emelet 3.
Budapest, Hungary

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