Móricz Zsigmond és Kelemen Lajos, az Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület történetíró levéltárosa
Lajos Kelemen, the Transylvanian Museum Society’s Historian-Archivist and Zsigmond Móricz

Summary/Abstract: The author presents how in the second half of the 1920s Lajos Kelemen, a historian and archivist from Cluj, assisted the Hungarian writer, Zsigmond Móricz, to write his novel entitled A nagy fejedelem (The Great Prince). The novel is part of a cycle of novels dealing with the history of Transylvania. In 1926 the writer, who visited Transylvania, met Kelemen personally and consulted with him. Kelemen also provided useful historical data later on. These data, on the one hand, refer to the characters of the novel (to Prince Gábor Báthory and to several minor characters), and on the other hand, also helped the writer to be able to depict the Transylvanian landscape, to use the archaic Hungarian language of the 17th century adequately, and to present contemporary customs and cultural life.

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