A portrait photograph of Springfield College professor Miklos Ats. Miklos Tibor Zoltan Ats was born to Zoltan and Maria Ats on September 21, 1920 in Budapest. In 1938, he graduated from the Gymnasium of the Reformed Church in Budapest. After earning his MA from the University of Budapest in 1942, he served as a second lieutenant in the Royal Hungarian Army, during which time he was held as a prisoner of war in Russia for more than two years. In 1950, he earned his PhD from the University of Budapest, and went on to obtain advanced degrees from the University of Innsbruck and the University of Colorado. In 1956, Ats worked as a translator for the U.S. Embassy in Vienna and was subsequently honored by then-Vice President Richard Nixon. From 1957 to 1965, Ats taught at Wilbraham Academy in Wilbraham, Massachuetts. On June 15, 1961, he married Marilyn Mishler in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1965, Ats began teaching German at Springfield College, where he also advised the Ski Club and the Avon Tutorial Program. He later taught courses in the history department and ultimately retired in 1989. Ats died while visiting Hungry in in 1993.
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