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Szemle – Rundschau - Fitz Jenő: Ferenc Fülep. p. 247.

SZEMLE-RUNDSCHAU Alba Regia, XXIII, 1987 J. FITZ FERENC FÜLEP (1919-1986) On May 8 1986 a cardiac collapse put a sudden end to the life of Ferenc Fülep, director general of the Hungarian National Museum, a spectacular career following World War Two: as secretary of the Archaeological Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, departmental manager of the Ministry of Culture and — for 35 years — director general of the Hungarian National Museum he was an outstanding personality in archaeological researches and museology of Hungary. At the beginning of this long and unbroken career he passed almost two years — from 1947 to 1949 — in Székesfehérvár as the director of the Museum of County Fejér and Székesfehérvár (since 1950: Museum King Stephen). He had to take over an establishment ruined by war events and derelict for years, since its former maintained the Museum Association, was also disrupted by the radical changes taking place. Inspite of the grave difficulties, however, the museum recovered during these two years : the restorations were started and the collections rearranged. In 1948 it was reopened with an exhibition in three modest premises. Székesfehérvár was actually the starting-point of both his museological and scientific activity. The results of his excavations in Vajta were published in 1949 by the Archaeologiai Értesítő under the title Roman Car Funerals In Vajta. His paper Roman burial-stone from Seregélyes (Antiquitas Hungarica 1949) describes a native burialstone he has delivered to the museum. In summer 1949, as deputy chief of the National Inspectorate of Public Collections, his task in the monography compiling the researches on Intercisa consisted in the publication and analysis of the inscriptions. After leaving Székesfehérvár, his scientific activities took another course. After excavations in the military camps of Nagytétény and Almásfüzitő he spent all his energy on the Roman settlements of county Baranya, especially on ancient Christian burial-places, crypts and buildings of Sopianae, the monographic summary of which being the main part of his scientific activity. Only two further subjects were belonging to County Fejér: an inscription mentioning the Jewish synagogue at Intercisa (New remarks on the question of the Jewish synagogue at Intercisa, Acta Archaeologica Hungarica, 1966) and a recently discovered gilded glass vessel (Early Christian gold glasses in the Hungarian National Museum, Acta Antiqua Hungarica, 1968). 247