Az Érmellék ősrégészeti, császár- és árpádkori kutatásának története dr. Roska Márton és dr. Andrássy Ernő barátságának tükrében
Archaeological Investigations of the Érmellék in the Mirror of the Friendship of dr. Márton Roska and dr. Ernő Andrássy and their Collective Activity

Summary/Abstract: Dr. Márton Roska was a student of the archaeology school of Kolozsvár, which was founded by Béla Pósta. He was born in Magyarköblös (Kolozs County) on 15th of June 1880. During World War I he worked with the two famous archaeologists, Árpád Buday and István Kovács. After the war, in 1936, he had to leave Transylvania, and became professor at the University of Debrecen. In 1940 he went back to Kolozsvár, but after World War II he had to emigrate to Hungary again, and worked at the University of Szeged until 1949. In this period he excavated in the Bakony in order to study the paleolit era. Because of his illness and a lot of other problems he ended his life in 1961. He rests in the Farkasréti cemetery in Budapest. His death meant for Transylvania the loss of a famous archaeologist. Ernő Andrássy was a doctor in Érmihályfalva. He was born in 1894 in Szalacs then obtained a medical degree and settled down at Érmihályfalva. He bestowed his all life on archaeology, ethnography and ornithology. Although he had never been interested in politics, in 1958, during the communist dictatorship, the government imprisoned him. He was released in 1964, and died in 1968. He rests in the cemetery at Érmihályfalva. After 1924 he worked with Márton Roska in different excavations in Ottomány, Érmihályfalva, Érkörtvélyes, Gálospetri and others. He saved thousands of archaeological finds and the museum of Érmihályfalva was found on the basis of his collection, in 1952. The beginning of the archaeological research of the Érmellék, the knowledge of the ample archaeological finds of this region and holding the researcher’s interest, which study the prehistoric age of the Carpathian Basin, were the merit of Márton Roska’s and Ernő Andrássy’s friendship and their collective activity.

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