Miklós Szabó, the award-winning archaeologist and paleontologist Széchenyi, and a regular member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), died on Thursday at the age of 84. MTA on Thursday.
Miklós Szabo was born in Szombathely in 1940. He graduated from Nagy Lagos Secondary School in Szombathely, then obtained a diploma in Archeology and Latin from Eïtvos Loránd University (ELTE). He defended his doctoral thesis in 1965.
After receiving his degree, he became an employee of the Archeology Department of the Hungarian National Museum, and three years later he became a museologist and then scientific secretary of the Archeology Department of the Museum of Fine Arts. In 1985, he was appointed Deputy Director General of the Museum.
Miklós Szabó has taught at ELTE since 1973, having been appointed university professor in 1989. Between 1991 and 1993, he served as General Vice-Rector and was then elected Rector. He held this position until 1999. At the same time, between 1994 and 2005, he was also Director of the Institute of Archaeology at ELTE BTK.
His areas of research were European Iron Age history and archaeology, Celtic art, and ancient Greek and Etruscan archaeology.
Miklós Szabo defended his candidate thesis in historical sciences in 1980, and his academic doctoral thesis in 1987. In 1995, he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 2001, a regular member.
His work has been recognized with numerous foreign and domestic awards. In 2011, he received the Széchenyi Award, reads the MTA Commendation.
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