Lajos Bodnar

* Mátyóc, August 25, 1922 – † Mátyóc, January 17, 2000 / ethnographic collector, local historian ; ; He graduated from an agricultural vocational school in Munkács (1942), and completed his vocational school diploma in Komárom (1961). He was an agronomist at the Nagykapos Machine and Tractor Station (1952–1965), then head of the Nagykapos department of the Eastern Slovak Waterworks. He dealt with the ethnography of the Ungvidék. He was primarily interested in the economic ethnography of the region (tobacco growing, beekeeping, grain growing, animal husbandry, etc.), but he also has important papers on the lifestyle of the time (smugglers, beggars). He established and maintained a country house in his native village. The Hungarian Ethnographic Society awarded him the Gyula Sebestyén Memorial Medal. ; ; His main works: ; Csuprosok and cauldron menders. Ung County Commodity Exchange and Fairs at the Turn of the Century, 1993, ; Latorca and Other Writings, 1995.