Dr Dömötör Sándor - Holy Gellért hegye and a boszorkányok

Dr. Sándor Dömötör (Budapest, February 24, 1908 – Budapest, January 15, 1986) Hungarian ethnographer, linguist, museologist. He completed his university studies at the Péter Pázmány University in Budapest between 1926-1930. During this period, he collected the vernacular material of György Dunaszent. He became a student of Sándor Solymossy at the University of Szeged, and in 1930 he received his doctorate with his dissertation on outlaw romance. In 1931-1932, he was an intern at the Ethnographic Museum of the Hungarian National Museum. Between 1933 and 1935, he worked as a clerk (at the Capital Employees' Assistance Fund). Between 1936-1944, he was the deputy director of the Balatonkenes resort of the Budapest Employees' Assistance Fund. Between 1949-1957, he was the director of the Vasvár County Museum in Szombathely. Then, until his retirement in 1969, he worked as the main lecturer of the Institute of Folk Education. He played a leading role in starting the nationalism movement. His studies were continuously published in the journal Ethnographia and in the yearbooks of the Savaria Museum. Our volume contains two of the author's studies on witchcraft.

National Heritage Publishing House
Social science
120 pages
Binding: paperback glued
ISBN: 9786156189325
Author: Dr Sándor Dömötör
Release year: 2020