Ihász István - Pintér János szerk.: Történeti Muzeológiai Szemle: A Magyar Múzeumi Történész Társulat Évkönyve 5. (Budapest, 2005)
I. Tanulmányok - Balahó Zoltán - Gál Vilmos: Jakabffy Imre életútja a nemzetiségi térképektől a régészeti bibliográfiáig
His father. Elemér Jakabffy, gained a degree in law, and then, following family tradition, became a member of parliament in 1910. After the Treaty of Versailles the family estate beacme part of Romania, and between the two World Wars his father became a leading figure among the 1 lungarian minority in Romania. He placed his older son Imre, who was interested in the humanities, to be taught in Hungary at the Piarist grammar school in Szeged, after which he graduated from the faculty of law at Budapest University, while the younger son was given an education in agriculture so as to be able to take over the family estate when the time came. Imre Jakabffy's career began in 1938 at the Central Statistical Office, and he participated in the population census of the returned Sub-Carpathian territories following tbc first Vienna Award, and then in the census work of the returned Transy lvanian territories after the second Vienna Award. From August 1939 he worked in the cartographic section of the Institute of Political Science (later the Pál Teleki Science Institute). This had been created as an idea by Teleki, and vibrations m the foreign and domestic affairs and the press of those states which had acquired parts of Hungary after Versailles were to be followed, analysed and catalogued. In the midst of this work Imre Jakabffy participated in the meetings related to the Second Vienna Award discussing preparation and implementation of the Hungarian-Rom aman border, and in 1942 produced a more precise version of the famous J'eleki „red map" map showing the ethnic make-up of the Central Danube Basin. At the end of the war he participated m preparing the Hungarian delegates for the Paris peace talks, and also in the talks themselves. In the understanding of the Paris peace talks, he also played an important part in the work of the committee for establishing the Czechoslovakian—Hungarian border with respect to the three disannexed Hungarian villages opposite Bratislava on the Hungarian side of the Danube After 1948 the communist regime found him persona non grata due to his previous work and his origins, and he was retired at the age of 34. After a long period of hardship he managed to find a job, first m the Hungarian National Museum and later in the Museum of Applied Aits. While working in the Hungarian National Museum, beginning in 1954, he wrote his great work, a five-volume archaeological bibliography of the Central Danube Basin that is still considered one of the most important handbooks for I lungarian archaeologists. The above reminiscence is a typical yet colourful 20 1n-century Hungarian story of how someone became a middle-class office worker. To this day Imre Jakabffy lives an active life, and this year celebrates his 90 th birthday.
