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70 Years of the Transdanubian Research Institute’s Publishing Activities
The 1940s
The Institute in 1944, one year later after the foundation of, due to war
conditions and the lack of financial resources could not publish large volume
works. Only two small booklets were issued
Cholnoky Jenő’s Tihany National
Park and Dabinoviċ Antun’s Croatia and the Árpád Dinasty.
The printing work
was performed by the University of Pécs Dunántúl Publishing and Printing
Company.
The Institute had working contacts with the journal
Sorsunk /Our
Fate
/ published in Pécs and
Győri Szemle
, this is why
Dabinoviċ’s
work could
be published in the 1944/5 issue of
Sorsunk
.
The 1944/3-4 and 5-6 issues of journal
Dunántúli Szemle /Transdanubian
Review/
published in Szombathely later renamed as
Vasi Szemle /Vas County
Review/
were also published by the Institute and edited by
Ágoston Pável
a
university lecturer.
There were publications marked by serial numbers from 1-12 but without
independent serial title which can be considered as the first series of
Transdanubian Research Institute.
It contained studies written not only by the
members of the Institute
(András Babics,
Zoltan Szabó Pál,
Lajos Hegedűs)
but also valuable works of
Jenő
Cholnoky, Elemér Vadász, Lajos Horváth,
Adolf Oliver Horvát and Tibor Hortobagyi
.
Zoltán Szabó Pál,
the first director of the Transdanubian Research
Institute writes as follows: "
as our financial resources were running out, the
business sector of Pécs, honouring our Institute’s valuable work was giving so
much help that the institution could survive and even some smaller works
could be published." In the same work, we also can read that "the director of
the Institute having talks with the management of Baranya County started to
compile Baranya County's economic and scientific data bank as well. [...] This
work, at the same time, was an experiment to see to which extent science can
help in the management bodies of practical life.