Savaria - A Vas Megyei Múzeumok értesítője 30. (2006) (Szombathely, 2007)

Helytörténet - Mód László: Adalékok Pável Ágoston egyetemi magántanárrá nyilvánításához

SAVARIA AVAS MEGYEI MÚZEUMOK ÉRTESÍTŐJE, 30 Szombathely, 2006 ADALÉKOK PÁVEL ÁGOSTON EGYETEMI MAGÁNTANÁRRÁ NYILVÁNÍTÁSÁHOZ MÓD László Szegedi Tudományegyetem Néprajzi és Kulturális Antropológiai Tanszék H-6720 Szeged, Egyetem u. 2., Hungary E-mail: modlaci@freemail.hu CONTRIBUTIONS TO AN ACCOUNT OF ÁGOSTON PAVEL'S APPOINTMENT AS A UNIVERSITY READER The study sets out to review the procedure for appointing Ágoston Pável as a university reader, which began at the Francis Joseph University of Sciences in Szeged, but due to intervening events was completed at what by then was the Miklós Horthy University of Sciences. The documents available show that outstanding scholars of the period spoke appreciatively of his varied work. Pável was among the outstanding researchers to obtain the rank of university reader (magántanár) at Szeged in the early 1940s. The country's first university department of ethnography was founded by the education authorities in 1929, at the Francis Joseph University of Sciences in Szeged, under Sándor Solymossy, by then 65 years old. Sources available suggest the move had been initiated by a ministry decision connected with the reorganization of higher education, not by the university. When Solymossy retired in 1934, Cultural Minister Bálint Hóman moved the ethnography chair to Péter Pázmány University in Budapest. Several prominent figures in 20th-century ethnography were appointed to university readerships at Szeged in the early 1940s, although there were professors at ethnography departments in the Budapest and Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) universities. On April 16, 1940, Ágoston Pável requested from the Faculty of Humanities, Languages and History at Francis Joseph University of Sciences that he be appointed to a readership in "South Slav—Hungarian linguistic and literary relations". He gave a trial lecture on February 6, 1941 on "King Matthias in Slovene Literature and Popular Tradition", which was accepted unanimously, and he asked the faculty to help him secure the acceptance of his proposal. On February 27, 1941, at the 4th regular session of the faculty, the committee recommended that Ágoston Pável be granted a readership in "South Slav—Hungarian linguistic and literary relations, and forwarded the matter to the Minister of Culture and Public Education. 417