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The specialist was seventy-seven years old.
According to the news published on the Facebook page of the Hungarian National Museum on Sunday evening, the institution, which died on Saturday, April 3, is considered by the institution as its own death.
István Fodor (1943-2021) was admitted to the Hungarian-Russian-German department of the University of Szeged in 1962, but began his higher education at the Faculty of History of the Lomonosov University in Moscow, where he studied history and archeology for five years. . He studied Turkology at the Institute of Languages.
Already in these years he participated in a series of excavations carried out in Hungary and the Soviet Union, and his interest in archaeological excavations related to Hungarian prehistory and its results developed.
After researching materials from Leningrad, Moscow, and other Soviet collections, he wrote his dissertation on the Volga Bulgarians and immediately upon his return became an employee of the Hungarian National Museum, from where he slowly rose up the ladder.
In 1978 he became head of the Medieval Department and eight years later he was appointed general director. He served until 1993 and for the next twenty-eight years he served as honorary CEO.
From the beginning, his field of research was the archaeological study of Hungarian prehistory and the time of the Hungarian conquest, all of which represented most of his work. He defended his dissertation on this subject in 1982, and devoted most of his seven books and dissertations to it. […] From the regime change until 2000, he participated in the search for the Hungarian artistic treasures brought to the Soviet Union, since 1994 as ministerial commissioner. […]
– write about it on the website of the National Museum.
As a university professor since 1974, his career as a specialist in training the next generation has been recognized with various honors, including the Small Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (1997).
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