We say goodbye to ethnographer Antal Filep (1936–2025), our former colleague.
Our famous ethnographer left the living on May 5, 2025. He was a tireless ethnographer with great knowledge, an excellent teacher and a museologist at the same time. Although he did not officially spend a long time in the service of the Győr museum, he researched the county for half a century and supported the collection work here. In 1959, with a newly obtained diploma, he became the assistant museologist of our institution, but he participated in the work of the museum already in the last year of his university studies. During his collecting trips in Kisalföld, he mainly investigated the fields of settlement research and folk architecture, and expanded our photo library with more than two and a half thousand excellently data photography. Between 1961 and 1963, he went back here to research as a museum director in Sárospatak, and in 1968 he wrote his doctoral thesis on the residential buildings in Kisalföld.
In 1989, he was called back to the Xántus János Museum as deputy director. As an important step in modernization, he organized the supply of computers to the county's museums. It was then that he started the computer editing of the Museum Yearbook and other publications. In addition to all of this, he continued his research on the ethnography and historical ethnography of the settlement, summarizing his results in many significant works. From September 1991, he performed at the Department of Ethnography at the Janus Pannonius University in Pécs. The following year, he was transferred and became a senior scientific associate of the university, but he continued to return to the region with his students to research. At that time, the work on the preparation of the monograph "Folk Art of Győr-Moson-Sopron County" began, for which he wrote the construction chapter. During the editing, he spent a lot of time with his old colleagues, but he also treated young people as equals and maintained a good relationship with them until his death. We preserve his memory with respect, not forgetting his human values and the results of his work.
