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Makra, Sz. & Bernert, Zs.: Dr. Olga Bottyán (1919): biographical sketch and bibliography
182 Sz. Makra & Zs. Bernert BIOGRAPHY Date and place of birth: 18 May 1919, Kecskemét. She obtained her first diploma at the Angolkisasszonyok Intézete (Teachers 1 College of the State School of Budapest), operated by Institutum Beatae Mariae Yirginis. Meanwhile, she majored in Anthropology, Ethnography, History and Archaeology at the Pázmány Péter University of Budapest. September 1941 - 30 June 1953, she worked primary school teacher. In 1942, she graduated in the Pázmány Péter University of Budapest in majors of Anthropology, Ethnography, History and Archaeology. In 1942-43, she was a trainee at the University of Kolozsvár. In 1943, she defended her dissertation with the title 'Anthropological Research of Cemeteries from the Scythian Period', and got her doctors' degree. In 1943-44, she won a scientific scholarship to study Székely (Sekler) people from an anthropological aspect. Unfortunately, her data remained in Kolozsvár. In 1944, she was commissioned to examine young soldiers in the medical-anthropological team of the Ministry of Defence in Budapest. After World War II, she had to live on by-jobs as a result of political persecutions of the Communist regime. Her first husband (TIBOR KOVÁTS 1) was executed, therefore, she was also harassed. 4 August - 23 November 1953. Kindergarten teacher, Villanyszerelő Vállalat (Electrician Company), Budapest, VII., Sip. u. 24 November - 7 December 1953. Governess paid by the hour, Fővárosi Altalános Fiúiskola (General Boys' School of Budapest), Budapest, IX., Illatos út 2-4. He was executed in 1954 and buried in Új köztemető (Rákoskeresztúri sírkert), 301 -es parcella (New Public Cemetery, Rákoskeresztúr, Plot 301 ). During the exhumation works in 1989, he was identified by Drs É VA SUSA and K INGA É RY anthropologist experts of the Történelmi Igazságtételi Bizottság (Committee for Historical Justice). Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 101, 2009
