Thomas L. Sakmyster (born 1943) is an American professor emeritus of history of the University of Cincinnati, known for his studies of early 20th-century Hungary, including the "first full-length scholarly study of Hungary's most controversial figure" of the 20th century and the "most important work on the admiral to date", Miklós Horthy, as well as a meticulously-researched even-handed biography of the Hungarian-Soviet spy J.
[1][2][3][4][5][6] Thomas L. Sakmyster was born in 1943 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
In 1967, he received an MA and in 1971 a doctorate, both in history, from Indiana University Bloomington.
[1] In 1971, Sakmyster began to teach history at the University of Cincinnati.
[7] As of 1995, he served as Walter Langsam Professor of European History.