Géza Fehér

Year 1955, Volume: 19 Issue: 76, 529 - 534, 20.10.1955

Hamit Zübeyir Koşay

Abstract

Geza Feher was born in Kunszentmiklds, Hungary, in ı 8go. After having finished his high scool studies in Kiskunhalas, he came to Debrecen, where he matriculated at the old reformed College. Here under the leadership of his professore J. Darko, N. Lâng and J. Papay he soon devoted himself to the studies of the history of the migration period. His inaugural dissertation "The Atelkuzu territory and name" deals with the problems of the original home of the Hungarian people. In 1913 he got his high-scool teacher's diploma, and worked first in Sepsiszentgyörgy /Transilvaniat and then in Szabadka. During the world war he served in the infantry. Towards the end of the war he came to Turkey. Here he worked for six monaths in the Hungarian Institute in İstanbul. After the war he rearrenged the oriental collection of the Municipal Lib rary of Budapest. In 1921 he published his book "Bulgarisch-Ungariche Beziehungen in den V.-XI. Jahrhunderten' Bulgarian-Hungarian Relations in the V.-XI. centuriesi, which is up to now a fundamental work of the history of that time. - In 1922 he went to Bulgaria to do research work. Here with the assistance of the government he built a scaffold to the famous rock-relief of Madara, and got persuission and assistance to carry out excavations in the neighbourhood of the rock relief.

Keywords

Geza Feher, J. Papay, Budapest, İstanbul