Agria 43. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2007)

Bodó Sándor: A hatvan éves Petercsák Tivadar köszöntése

Petercsák Tivadar egész eddigi életpályája a hazai múzeumügy eredményes és önzetlen szolgálatában telt el. Vezetői eredményeit a tudományos ismeretek gazdagításával, népszerűsítésével koronázta. Őszintén kívánom, hogy szerteágazó tevékenységét termékeny évtizedeken át folytassa a szűkebb és a tágabb pátria javára. Sándor Bodó To Tivadar Petercsák on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday We all live in a community where people show an interest in people's family background, career and achievements. History, society, tradition and culture are after all things we are professionally involved with on a day to day basis in the specialised world of Hungarian museology. It is a world in which Tivadar Petercsák occupies an eminent position, having enjoyed a career which has betrayed both a commitment to the region of his birth, the Hegyköz of Abaúj County (he was born in Filkeháza), and his adopted home: Heves County, Eger and its Castle. Tivadar Petercsák was born in Filkeháza on March 29

th 1947. He attended his local school and Sátoraljaújhely Grammar School, before graduating from the Louis Kossuth University in Debrecen in 1971, in Ethnography and History. His career as a museologist began as an ethnographer in 1972 at the Hungarian National Museum's Rákóczi Museum in Sárospatak, where one of his most important achievements was the increase in the number of ethnographic artefacts in the institution's collection. From 1975 his work took him to Szerencs, where he was appointed curator of the Zemplén Museum. It was a time when he devoted some time to the research of postcards. In 1981 he left Szerencs for the István Dobó Castle Museum in Eger, which was to prove the most important post in his career. In June 1989 he was appointed director of the County Museum Service, a position he continues to hold today. Under his leadership reconstruction work on the castle has continued apace, something that has resulted in the opening of the Dobó Bastion in 2005, a facility that now provides the kind of venue that is ideally suited to establishing relations with the general public, as well as hosting workshops and exhibitions. The permanent exhibitions have also been updated under his management, and a new collection basis established. The number of attractions on show at the museum has increased, and the historical festivals and interactive displays now available complement nicely what the castle has to offer. Tivadar Petercsák's organisational talents have led to an increase in the castle's 9