Bálint Bellosics
Bálint Bellosics, ethnologist and teacher, was one of the first researchers of the ethnography of the region of Hetés. He was born in Rédics in 1867. At the age of five, his family moved to Dolnja Lendava. The house where they once lived has been renovated and can be found in the street Kolodvorska ulica, in Lendava.
His father, János Bellosics, was amongst the most significant people in Dolnja Lendava of that time. His mother, Karolina Petek, was born in Gornja Lendava, a settlement which is today known by the name Grad na Goričkem. The sense of belonging to two different nationalities had a very strong impact on Bellosics´s work.
After schooling, he worked as an auxiliary teacher in Baja and was later named principal of the local college of education. He was the first to publish ethnographic studies about the Slovenian minority in Hungary both in Hungarian and German. He researched their ethnographic characteristics, folk traditions, folk costumes, folk music and architecture. His research was also published in the periodicals of Dolnja Lendava as well as of Murska Sobota.
He died in 1916, as a result of untreated pneumonia, at the age of only 49. As far as his work is concerned, Bellosics was always eager and diligent when working. There are numerous commemorative plaques and various publications in honour of his memory.
Source:
- Halász Albert 2013. Hommage à Bellosics Bálint. Lendava: Lendva Községi Magyar Nemzeti Önkormányzati Közösség – Madžarska samoupravna narodna skupnost občine Lendava.
