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Nándor Fettich (7 January 1900, – 17 May 1971) was a Hungarian archaeologist, goldsmith, and member of the
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Biography

Fettich was born in 7 January 1900 in
Acsád Acsád is a village in Vas County, Hungary. Notable people * Nándor Fettich (1900–1971), archaeologist and goldsmith. *Béla Rákosi (1841–?), doctor *Jenő Rákosi Jenő Rákosi (born Jenő Kremsner; 12 November 1842, Acsád, Kingdom of ...
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. He finished high school in
Szombathely } Szombathely (; ; also see #Etymology, names) is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas County in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria. Szombathely lies by the streams ''Perint'' and '' ...
and Budapest. In 1921, he graduated from the
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in Budapest in a doctorate in arts, with a thesis about votive tablets in the Roman province of Pannonia. From 1921 to 1923, he was a student of the flute department of the
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. He, in 1926, worked in the
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for Numismatic and antiquities collection of the charge of the
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. Having learned Russian, he was posted as one of the only archaeologists of the
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from 1929 to 1935. He was the founding editor of Folia Archaeology in 1939. In 1941, he was appointed as the director of the Hungarian National Museum. In 1941, he became a goldsmith. He made many history-themed
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. After his retirement in 1945, he became a manual laborer, but he still worked as a goldsmith. In 1956, he was the author of several scientific papers. From 1957 to his death on 17 May 1971 in
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he was a member of the Creative Union of Goldsmith Artists. In 1957, he participated in
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in
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. From 1959 to 1962, he was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as a contractual employee of Archaeological Research Group. He was awarded the Hungarian Archaeology and History of Art Medal of the Science Society and was a member of the Helsinki Finno-Ugric Company. Fettich attended several archaeological excavations.


Works

*1926: The Avar age plastics industry in Hungary. Budapest. *1928: Green piles of steppe Scythian artifacts. Budapest. *1929: Bronzeguss und Nomadenkunst. Prague. *1934: garcsinovói Scythian artifacts. Budapest. *1935: The conquering Hungarians metalwork. Budapest. *1942: altungarische Die Kunst. Berlin. *1942: Der Fund von Čadjavica. Vjestnik hrvatskog Arheološkoga društvo NSXXII-XXIII / 1, 55–61. *1943: Győr story of XIII. century until the middle. Győr. *1943-47: Hungarian styles of Applied Arts I-III. Budapest. *Archaeological studies in the late 1951 Hun metalwork history. Budapest. *1953: Szeged-Nagyszeksos Hun prince grave finding. Budapest. *1958: Jánoshida Avar Age cemetery. Archaeological Papers II / 1. *1969: Recent data of prehistoric car in the Carpathian Basin. Studia Ethnographica 2. Budapest. *1990: Bánhalmi litter to find. The Szolnok County Museums Yearbook VII, 123–137.


Awards

*1969: Finnish Lion Knights Knight's Cross


References

*
István Erdélyi István Erdélyi (born 1902) was a Hungarian film producer. Active in the Cinema of Hungary, Hungarian film industry during the 1930s and 1940s, he founded the production and film distribution, distribution company Kárpát Film and was a leader o ...
: Fettich Nándor az ötvösművész, Műgyűjtő, 1973. 2. sz. *István Erdélyi: Fettich Nándor Ethnographia, 1971 * Krisztina Kelbert: Fettich Nándor régész Vas megyei gyökerei, Savaria 29 (2006) *
Gyula László Gyula László ( Kőhalom, 14 March 1910 – Oradea, 17 June 1998) was a Hungarian historian, archaeologist and artist. His main work is the novel theory of "double conquest" of the Carpathian Basin by Hungarians in 5th and 9th century. The ...
: Nándor Fettich, Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 1972 *Gyula László: Fettich Nándor emlékezete, Cumania 1, 1972 * Mihály Párducz: Fettich Nándor, Archaeológiai Értesítő, 1972 *Nándor Fettich ostromnaplója 1945. január 16. – február 9. Budapest 2000. *Vasi Szemle 2001 LV/4.


Sources

*Magyar biographical lexico
IV: 1978-1991 (A to Z)
Főszerk.
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. Budapest: Academic. 1994.


External links


Mesterházy Károly: Fettich Nándor és a magyar honfoglalás régészete. Vasi Szemle 2001/ 4, 452-458.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fettich, Nandor 1900 births 1971 deaths People from Vas County Goldsmiths Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 20th-century Hungarian archaeologists Franz Liszt Academy of Music alumni