A Historical and Archival Guide to Székesfehérvár (Székesfehérvár, 2003)

AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY WRITING OF SZÉKESFEHÉRVÁR

and Székesfehérvár, which was established 14 August 1874. Although primarily it was the maintenance of the collection that was expressed in the society's constitution it aspired to acquaint with town and county history in scientific publications as well. The archaeological society proposed a monograph of the town and the county as early as the year it was established; however, the idea did not materialise at the time. The society published almanacs in 1885 and in 1893 edited by Dezső Hattyuffy

x{) the secretary of the society. Dezső Hattyuffy is also the author of several books on village history; he wrote the historical outline of Moha, which was published in 1883.'

1 This work was preceded by the work by Gyula Kereskényi, parson of Érd, entitled the Historical Outline of Érd (Hamzsabég) and Batta (Százhalom), which was published in 1874 in Székesfehérvár. The role of journals should also be mentioned. After an attempt by Dezső Rexa

12 to publish a newspaper in 1911, it took decades before another historical journal could come out. Székesfehérvári Szemle appeared first in January 1931 as the monthly supplement of Székesfehérvári Napló under the editorship of Arnold Marosi, the director of the local museum. The paper appeared as the proceedings of the Association of Museums of Székesfehérvár and Fejér county, founded in 1910.

13 In the first period the gazette appeared monthly and reported mostly on the results of archaeological excavations, but we can also find data on village history, essays on culture, on literature and art, as well as museum bulletins, news and official reports. In 1933 merged issues came out. From 1934 it became the publication of the Association of Museums of Székesfehérvár and Fejér county with the sub-heading Essays on the Life of Székesfehérvár and Fejér County. Excellent high-standard studies appeared in the now quarterly paper; most of them about the history of Székesfehérvár and the archaeological excavations of the period of the Hungarian conquest. The journal contains standard works such as Árpád Dortnuth's discourse The History of the Vörösmarty Family. The journal of scientific standard came out in one volume in 1935 and in 1937. The discourses contained col-