Jolan Babus
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Jolán Babus was a Hungarian
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 ethnographer and teacher.

Life

She was born in Košice
Košice
Košice is a city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary...

, which is now part of Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

. In 1920 her family moved to Lónya
Lónya
- History :300px|thumb|left|The wall paintings in the reformed churchOn the basis of the historical researches the village was existed when the Magyars in Hungary in the 10th century was settled. First time the name of "Luna" had been mentioned in a noble benefaction letter in 1270.In the 13th...

, where her father was a Calvinist priest. From 1936 she attended to the Teacher College of Debrecen where she taught Faculty of Arts. In 1943 she is a member of the National Museum of Ethnography. In 1952 she founded the Grammar-school and the dormitory in Vásárosnamény
Vásárosnamény
Vásárosnamény is a small town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.It is located at around ....

. She was the founder of the Museum Bereg. The last year he worked in Szekszárd
Szekszárd
Szekszárd is a city in Hungary and the capital of Tolna county. By population, Szekszárd is the smallest county capital in Hungary; by area, it is the second smallest -Location:...

, in the Museum Sárrét. Babus died there, but she was buried in Lónya
Lónya
- History :300px|thumb|left|The wall paintings in the reformed churchOn the basis of the historical researches the village was existed when the Magyars in Hungary in the 10th century was settled. First time the name of "Luna" had been mentioned in a noble benefaction letter in 1270.In the 13th...

.

Works

  • Kender- és lenmunkák a beregmegyei Lónyán (Népr. Közl., 1957)
  • Nádvágás és tetőfedés a Bereg megyei Lónyán
  • A lónyai vizek néprajza (Népr. Közl., 1959).
  • Adalékok a lónyai aratáshoz
  • Adatok a vásárosnaményi és gergelyiugornyai halászathoz
  • Tiszaháti falucsúfolók. 1955.
  • Néprajzi tanulmányok a beregi Tiszahátról
  • Közmondások és szólások a Bereg megyei Lónyáról
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