Oroszi Sándor szerk.: A Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum Közleményei 1998-2000 (Budapest, 2001)

Paikert Alajos: Életem és korom (Egy emlékirat a múzeum Adattárának őrizetében) Közzéteszi: TAKÁTS RÓZSA

Back in Hungary in 1903, he took an active part in the arrangement of the Museum of Agriculture in the group of buildings rebuilt from durable materials according to the plans of Ignác Alpár. The Museum was solemnly inaugurated by Emperor and Hungarian King Francis Joseph I on 9th June 1907. In 1908 Paikert was elected secretary-general of the Hungarian Society of Economics. He started and edited a permanent column entitled 'Foreign Review' in the journal 'Köztelek'. In summer of 1908 he participated in a study tour to Great Britain organized by OMGE. In 1910 he founded the Turan Society (Hungarian Asia Society) with Count Pál Teleki, Count Béla Széchenyi and Ármin Vámbéry, world-famed Orientalist as presidents. From 1913 he started and edited the Society's bimonthly review, 'Túrán'. In 1916 Paikert began working in the Ministry of Agriculture as an assistant of the ministerial commissioner of home-crafts. lie initiated (in 1917) and organized (in 1920) the Hungarian Society of Foreign Affairs with Count Albert Apponyi presiding. Transferred temporarily by the Minister of Agriculture, Paikert performed the tasks connected with the operation of the Society as managing vice-president. He was member of the Hungarian delegation at several international congresses. In November 1923 Paikert was appointed to director of the Museum of Agriculture. In 1925 he began organizing the Circle of the Friends of the Museum of Agriculture of which he became first president after the statutory meeting in 1927. In 1929 he was commissioned by the Minister to arrange the showroom of Hungarian agriculture at the World Exhibition in Barcelona. In the same year Fuad I, King of Egypt invited him to establish the Museum of Agriculture in Cairo. In order to be able to carry out this task, Paikert retired from the post of director of the Hungarian Museum of Agriculture. On this occasion the title of under-secretary of state was conferred on him. In the 1940s he lived in seclusion partly in Budapest and partly in his holiday home in Balatonszemes, writing his memoirs and poems. He died in Budapest in 1948. His wife was Dely Rónay of Osgyán, they had two sons, Alajos and Géza, and a daughter, Éva. The present generation of museologists of the Museum of Hungarian Agriculture respectfully keeps his memory.