The memorial plaque commemorating Zoltán Tóth was installed on the main building of the Lórand Eötvös University in 1992. It was an initiative of the Dean of the University as well as the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. At the close of the 1990's, the plaque had to be removed due to construction work and lies in storage in the cellar of the University. Soon, the plaque will be newly installed at the History Department of the Eötvös University in a room named after Tóth. Zoltán Tóth was born in Versec (Vršac, located in Serbia today) on August 11, 1911, the son of a public servant. After completing his school education, he was granted a scholarship from the reformed church and began studies in history, geography and theology at the University of Cluj-Napoca (Hungarian: Kolozsvár, located in Romania today). During this period, Tóth was actively involved in the Nationalist Hungarian People's Movement „Erdélyi Fiatalok“ („Transsylvanian Youth“). In November 1933, Tóth was ordained a priest. One year later, he took his degree as a philologist and teacher of history, Romanian and geography. He took a position as an assistant teacher at the Reformed Gymnasium in Satu Mare (Hungarian: Szatmárnémeti, located in Romania today), and was simultaneously involved in the publication of the newspaper „Hitel“, which appeared in Transsylvania. In 1927, Tóth resettled in France in order to pursue Ph.D. Studies, but he was forced to interrupt these plans after the outbreak of WWII two years later. In 1940, North Transsylvania was apportioned to Hungary as a result of the Second Vienna Arbitration, and thus, Tóth absolved his military service in the Hungarian forces after July of 1941. He remained stationed in Cluj-Napoca and and composed during this period his most significant work about the Transsylvanian population. Still during the war, Tóth was received an academic appointment at the Pál Teleki Institute in Budapest and continued his research there. His scientific merits later helped him to gain an academic position at the Institute for Historical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1953, Tóth was appointed Director of the Chair for the History of People's Democracies and Dean of the Loránd Eötvös University. In 1956, he participated in the Petőfi Circle discussions and spoke out for a reform of the enforced political conformity in academia. During the afternoon of October 23, 1956, Tóth supervised a student assembly from the Eötvös University, which ratified an appeal to the Party leadership with the aim of obtaining concessions for the students. Together with others the same day, Tóth attempted to have the temporary ban on demonstrations lifted which had been put in force during the afternoon of October 23rd. Two days later, he joined a delegation of students proceeding to the Party Headquarters in the Akadémai Street for negotiations. At the entrance to the building, he was hit and killed by a volley of bullets.