Téglás István néprajzkutatói munkássága
István Téglás’s Ethnographic Research

Summary/Abstract: István Téglás, active in the late 19th and early 20th century, was one of those Transylvanian researchers who, as a result of their passionate interest, became high standard professionals. István Téglás was born in 1853 in Sfântu Gheorghe and died in 1915 in Turda, where he left behind a museum of several thousand objects, about a hundred published articles and a huge amount of manuscript material. The archaeological notes of Téglás were processed and published by István Bajusz in 2005; a quarter of the manuscripts is of ethnographic nature, which has not yet been reviewed, so we have considered it timely to provide a summary of these. His material collection can be reconstructed from the three surviving inventory books, which include 824 ethnographic objects, while his folklore research in the Hungarian, Romanian and Saxon areas are included in 56 notebooks. Particularly valuable are the hand-painted egg designs, weaving patterns, carved motifs, folk decorative styles and natural scenes, all captured in careful and elaborate drawings.

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