Füzes Endre: A szántalpas hombártól a tájházig (Skanzen könyvek. Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 2012)
Település - népi építészet - Foreword
Foreword Dear Reader, In contemporary sciences in Hungary, especially in the field of social sciences it is customary or even fashionable to publish festive volumes. The outstanding scientist of a given field on their 60-70-75-80' 1 1 birthday is celebrated by their admirers and friends with a festive volume of essays. The authors of this volume endeavour to link the topics of the essays to the research area of the celebrated scientist who has reached the advanced age of 80 years. It was just ten years ago when we saluted Dr. Endre Füzes our colleague, friend and former director general on his 70 t h birthday with the 15 t h volume of Ház és Ember, the Almanac of the Hungarian Open Air Museum. The bibliography of his works was also publicized there. The Hungarian Open Air Museum wishes to honour its former director general (1986-1995) Dr. E. Füzes with this particular publication. However, on this present occasion instead of the customary 'Festschrift' genre, we opted for collecting the essays of the celebrated person published many years ago or the ones which never appeared in print. Dr. Fi. Füzes started his career as a talented ethnographer conducting research in the area of folk architecture, husbandry and way of life. While he worked as a museologist, or worked for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences he primarily did basic research and also wrote studies, essays of different topics. After receiving his academic qualification, his study of containers for grain, granaries meant one of the climaxes of his research results. ('Storing Grains in Hungarian Peasant Husbandries' published by Akadémiai Kidó, Budapest 1984) Another significant accomplishment was his editing (and writing certain parts of) the chapter discussing the issues of folk architecture and conservation of folk monuments in 'Way of Life' volume IV of Hungarian Ethnography. These particular writings are not included in this volume, as they arc widely accessible. Significant part of his less well known works is related to creating the Hungarian Ethnographic Atlas. Not only do we have to refer to numerous local collecting projects, but we should also mention that his mock comments served as a useful methodological guide for the rest of the authors of this great work. Endre Füzes's career, however continued in a different way; he spent long decades at the Department for Gulture as a cultural official, which interrupted his intense scientific work. Between 1986 and 1995 as the director general of the Hungarian Open Air Museum he led one of the key national institute of Hungarian museology, which included several serious administrative and official responsibilities. After his retirement his life did not become less eventful either. He was president of 11
