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Népi beszélgetések az Ormánságból /Folk Talks in
Ormánság/
published by Lajos Hegedűs
in 1946 was the first
independent publication issued by the Transdanubian
Research Institute. A
note on the blurb refers to an interesting
phenomenon of the book’s publishing saying "the plates are
made thanks to the kind donations of of the National Peasants'
Party (Pécs)".
The Institute's survival and publishing activities in the early years were
ensured rather by the help of the local society. The Director as a result of his
fundraising tours requesting financial assistance got more or less annual or
annually recurring support (from Győr-Moson-Pozsony, Komárom-Esztergom,
Fejér, Tolna and Baranya counties and the cities of Győr, Esztergom,
Székesfehérvár, Nagykanizsa, Pécs and Mohács).
From the 1950s until 1983
The institute’s first
Yearbook
was published by the
Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences in 1959. In the preface of the book
Zoltán
Szabó Pál,
the director of the Institute,
is saying thank
you to Department II of the Academy for supporting the
publishing of the book.
The books published in this
series were issued under the same serial title until
1965 and from then on between 1966 and 1982 were
issued under the serial title
Értekezések
/
Treatises/.
All
the volumes came throughout the Academy’s
Publishing House, in an average number of 500 copies
and the publications were distributed by the publisher
to retail booksellers as well.
The Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy published the defended
scientific dissertations of the institute's staff as separate monographs. Among
the were books as follows:
The Life of Hungarian Peasantry and Their
Struggle with Feudal Latifundia 1711-1848
by Lajos Rúzsás (1964),
The
History of Coal Mining in North-Mecsek Mountains
by András Babics (1967),
The Drava-Mura Water System’s Water Management and Drainage
Conditions
by György Lovász
(1972 ).