Imre (Emmerich) Menyhay (12 May 1931, in Budafok – 23 October 2018) was a Hungarian-Austrian economist, pedagogue, sociologist, and psychologist of economics. His fields of research are pedagogy, economic psychology, and economic sociology development. His key works are Management, Business, Ethics - Social Theory and Background by the Application of Economic Sociology, dealing with social theoretical economic sociology, and Homo Oeconomicus And Unfinished Creation - The Analytical Background by Economic Psychology and Its Application, dealing with psychoanalytical economic psychology.
His family
With his wife Ilona Murányi he has two children: Melanie és Stefan.
Studies and scientific degrees
He graduated from the Civic School of Budafok with an excellent grade and the Márvány Street Economic High-School of Budapest with a superior grade. In the latter one, he studied under the Kossuth Prize winning writer, Miklós Szentkuthy, who befriended this pupil who excelled in Hungarian literature and held school celebration speeches. The bonds of this friendship tied them together until the writer's death.
He completed his studies at the Corvinus University at the then Karl Marx University of Economics, Faculty of Pedagogy in Budapest with a pre-degree certificate, later acquiring a doctoral degree in pedagogy with summa cum laude. On 6 November 1956, due to his journalistic activity, he had to flee to Austria.
In Vienna, after preliminary studies at the Institute for International Economic Studies, he acquired a teacher's degree in economics and a Master's title before the Austrian State Examination Committee. Afterwards, he pursued studies at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the University of Graz, where he obtained a master's degree in business economics, then a Doctor of Science (PhD) degree in sociology. He obtained the Doctor Habilitatus degree with a hundred-per cent qualification.
Young years
As a student, he earned his living from his teachers’ support, scholarships, and work. He worked as an unskilled worker in the Hutera Brick Factory in Törökbálint, as a payroll clerk in the Tool and Machine Factory of Budapest, and as a cashier paying wins at the Horse Racing Track. On assignment by the TIT (Scientific Educational Society), he held lectures in plants in Budapest and its surroundings. He returned to this historic Society half a century later, publishing several studies in the Society's journal called Valóság (Reality).
During the late 1940s and early 1950s, he acted as the leader of the 1915 Astrik the Blessed Scout Team and clerk of the youth organization of the Catholic vicarage of Budafok Fourth District. He attended the demonstrations in support of Cardinal Mindszenty. He was monitored by the State Security Authority.
During the school-year 1955/56, he taught in the Sopron High-School of Economics, and benefiting from the support of the local council, he established the technical conditions and licensing for relaunching the Soproni Napló (Sopron Journal). At that time, the press was controlled by the Communist Party. The Győr Party Committee excluded him from the editorial committee of the newspaper. He was included after the onset of the revolution. Because of this activity, he and the students and professors of the University of Sopron were forced to flee in 1956. He returned to Sopron – to the university – forty years later in 1996, from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences where he taught since 1991.