Acta Geologica 37. (1994)

1-2. szám - G. Hámor: Geologist József Fülöp

MAGYAR TUDOMÁNYOS AKADÉMIA KÖNYVTARA 507 2 1 b Acta Ceologica Hungarica, Vol. 37/1-2, pp. 1-15 (1994) Geologist József Fülöp With the death of József Fülöp the Hungarian and international earth science communities have lost an outstanding scientist, and the higher levels of Hungarian geological education a school-creating teacher. Apart from his family, friends, colleagues, and students, his memory will also be kept alive by Hungarian and international earth sciences scholars. He was born in Bük, Vas County, Hungary as the first child of joiner József Fülöp. He attended secondary school in the higher elementary school at Kapuvár and in the Sopron commercial grammar-school between 1938 and 1946. In 1946, he registered at the geo­graphy-economics teaching faculty of the Pázmány Péter University of Sciences; thereafter, his interest turned more and more toward miner­alogy and later on toward geology, and he finished his studies as a geologist in 1952. At the Department of Geology of the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences (ELTE), he began his profession as an assistant. His fascinating scientific career was initiated by professor Vadász Elemér's supporting inspiration and guidance. Because of his interest in stratigraphy, as an aspirant he received the task of investigating the Cretaceous formations of the Gerecse Mountains. He presented a summary of the results of his work in a monograph published in the series of Geologica Hungarica (Ser. Geol. Tom. 11, 1958) and was awarded a candidate's degree in 1957. He showed continued interest for the Cretaceous of the Gerecse Mountains throughout his entire life (it was just one day before his death that he received with great pleasure the exceptionally rich fossil material found during the explosions of the mine at Berzsekhegy and collected by one of his colleagues working there). 0236-5278/94/$ 4.00 © 1994 Akadémiai Kiadd, Budapest 20 January 1927 - 13 April 1994

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