Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1993. [Vol. 1.] Eger Journal of American Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 21)

BOOK REVIEWS - Mária Barta: In Memóriám László Országh. Vadon, Lehel, Ed. Emlékkönyv Országh László tiszteletére. Eger, Hungary: Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Nyomdája, 1993. 405 pp

MÁRIA BARTA IN MEMÓRIÁM LÁSZLÓ ORSZÁGH Vadon, Lehel, ed. Emlékkönyv Országh László tiszteletére. Eger, Hungary: Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Nyomdája, 1993. 405 pp. In 1994 honoring the 10th anniversary of László Országh's death the Department of American Studies of the Károly Eszterházy Teachers' Training College issued a special memorial volume edited by Lehel Vadon. Primarily known as a lexicographer Országh was born in Szombathely on October 25, 1907. Having completed his primary and secondary education in his home town he began his studies as a Hungarian and German major at the Péter Pázmány University of Budapest and in the fall of 1926 he took on an additional specialization, English language and literature. His desire to become familiar with all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture resulted in a scholarship enabling him to spend the 1930-31 school year at Rollins College, Florida. The results of his research were summed up in a 1931-32 paper titled: "The Evolution of American Literary Historiography". Although he started his career as a secondary school teacher, in 1937 he joined the famed Eötvös College and in 1942 he became a privatedocent of the Péter Pázmány University. After military service and subsequent years of captivity as a prisoner of war in American occcupied Bavaria Országh returned to Hungary where he was asked to organize and run an English department at the University of Debrecen. While the department was eliminated in the fall of 1950, seven years later Országh was 147