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ERZSI GAZDAG: THAT'S HOW I SAW KODÁLY

(Reporter: Rezső Horváth)

        Rezső Horváth, professor of the Berzsenyi Dániel College of Szombathely, was a friend of and had a working partnership with Erzsi Gazdag, a poetess deceased in 1987. The world-famous composer, Zoltán Kodály set several poems of her to music since the 1930ies. In 1982, Erzsi Gazdag participated in a public discussion on which she answered the questions asked by Rezső Horváth. We prepared our publication according to the tape-records of this discussion. The - emotionally very nuanced - answers of Erzsi Gazdag provide numerous philological contributions. These answers evoke biographical details concerning Kodály and throw light on the personality of both the great composer and the poetess.

SELECTIONS FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ERZSI GAZDAG

        With the permission of the Erzsi Gazdag Literary Public Foundation we publish 9 letters of the late poetess from Szombathely. The messages dated between 1944 and 1975 provide a true image of the view of life, plans, literary and human relationships of Erzsi Gazdag. The letters addressed to Anna Hajnal have been annotated by Péter Tóth while those being addressed to Imre Trencsényi-Waldapfel and Rezső Szalatnai by Adrienn Csiszár.

TAMÁS SZÉLL-KÁLMÁN SZÉLL: A PROMINENT TEACHER IN THE 19^TH CENTURY

(The life and work of Dr. Antal Németh de Bejcz)

        The authors remember their great-grandfather, Dr. Antal Németh de Bejcz, born in 1838 at Bejc (today: Bejcgyertyános), a Vas County settlement. The talented child of the teacher was sent by his parents and protectors - among them, the titular bishop, György Németh at Nagyszombat - for studies. He became teacher Later he obtained his MA diploma. He married at Pozsony (Bratislava) and worked there as teacher. From 1872 he worked as school-inspector then, from 1878 he became the director of the educational districts of Esztergom and Komárom and he continued his multilateral researches and pedagogical activity. Among his works, the Latin and German dictionaries are prominent products. As an acknowledgement of his work he obtained the King's Counsel title and later, he was ennobled by Francis Joseph I together with the right to use the "Bejczi" title of nobility. Antal Németh deceased in 1902 in an unknown disease. The authors dedicate their paper to his native village.

ZSOLT BAJZIK: CASTLES IN VAS COUNTY DURINGTHE HUNGARIAN COUNCIL REPUBLIC

(Part II.)

        The council government constituted on 21^st March 1919 stated that the large estates, mines, large manufactures, banks and traffic companies would be socialized. In the beginnings only the smaller objects, the traffic and transportation means were confiscated from their owners. Afterwards, the huge values collected in castles have also been noticed and the Vas County directorate issued a commission for the exact and detailed inventory and gathering of the objects being in the empty and confiscated castles. After the collapse of the Council Republic, the new government has returned the wrongfully confiscated estates, castles and valuables. The second part of the study lists the valuables registered in Vas County.

SÁNDOR HORVÁTH: SIGNS OF A TRADITIONAL CULTURE

(On the ethnosemiotic work of Imre Gráfik)

        The renowned ethnographer, Imre Gráfik, bound tightly to Vas County is one of the initiators of the Hungarian semiotics and a prominent representative of it. His work of several decades is now presented by the English-language book compiled from his studies and published recently at Szombathely. His works include three main areas: the examination of the property signs, examination of the spaces and the examination of the material world of the folk culture. His starting point is that the signs within the culture are not isolated from each other but take effect by constituting a sign system, in other word: they live. Imre Gráfik, in his ethnosemiotic researches emphasizes the importance of the sign systems existing in the material culture and the everyday life.

BÉLA MÁRKUS-GÁBOR PINTÉR: THE OPERATIVE TREATMENT OF THE BILE STONE

(The history of the laparoscopic cholecystostomy)

        The authors overview the history of the operative treatment of the bile stones. The traditional method with open gall bladder is replaced by the new endoscopic operation. The authors inform about the technical developments that led to the safe performance of this operation. Owing to these developments this techniques - originally used in the case of gynaecological operations and appendectomy - have been introduced for the treatment of the bile stones and became widely recognized. The authors relate in detail the history of the laparoscopic cholecystostomy operation. (German-French-American line) This operative technique has been introduced in Hungary in 1990. The technique is in use since 1992 on the General Surgery Department of the Vas County "Markusovszky" Hospital. The authors also summarize the diseases in the treatment of which the technique is unquestionably advantageous and they provide an outline regarding the future opportunities.

FERENC SCHNEIDER-RITA PERGEL: OCCURRENCE AND OUTCOMESOF THE TICK-CAUSED ENCEPHALITIS IN VAS COUNTY BETWEEN 1988-1998

        According to the retrospective work-up of the data of 191 patients suffering from tick-caused endemic encephalitis between 1988-1998, the tick-caused encephalitis affected mainly the males between 21-60. The male-female ratio is 3.4:1. The disease strikes most frequently in May, June, July, and August. The number of infected persons having a non-hazardous occupation - being "occasionailly" infected - is about four times higher than of those who work in hazardous conditions due to their job (e.g. foresters, farmers).

Out of the 166 seropositive patients 121 remembered the tick sting preceding the illness. The patients generally recuperate from the tick-caused encephalitis without grave residual symptoms. Paralysis occurred in 12 cases. The less serious neurological and psychical residual symptoms are, however, more frequent but their exact number is not known. Since the introduction of the protective inoculation the disease occurrence shows a decrease.

ZOLTÁN ZENTAI: MORPHOMETRICAL EXAMINATIONS IN THE KŐSZEG-MOUNTAINS

        According to the 1:10 000 scale topographical maps a relative relief energy cartogram has been compiled. With the help of this cartogram, it can be seen that the area units having small relief energy are grouped in four different altitude zones (250-350 m, 350-400 m, 650-750 m, above 850 m). The individual altitude zones represent different geomorphic levels. These geomorphic levels could be formed in different manner and different times. We survey the most likely formation ages and processes.

MÁRTON VERESS: VALLEY-FORMATION IN THE SOUTHERN PARTOF THE KŐSZEG-MOUNTAINS

        The spatial location of the different metamorphic rocks and the direction of the area's valley have been compared in the southern part of the Kőszeg-Mountains. In order to do this, at 147 locations the schist dip lines have been measured then we calculated the smallest differences from these directions and the valley section directions where the 51% of the smallest direction differences were between 60-90Ă.
Taking the total length of the valley sections as 100%, 33% valley lengths proved to be in strike direction. In the case of the valleys formed on calcareous mica-schist and calcareous phyllite (Bozsok-Valley, Hosszú-Valley) the concordance with the strike direction is greater than in the case of valleys formed on graphitoid phyllite (Hétszemű-Valley, Kurta-Valley, Sötét-Valley, Tátra-Valley). Namely, 41,9% of the Bozsok-Valley, 40,4% of the Hosszú-Valley, 33,5% of the Hétszemű-Valley, 23,5% of the Kurta-Valley, 15,3% of the Sötét-Valley and 0% of the Tátra-Valley is formed in strike direction.