Gyula Laszlo Erdelyi

* Zsigárd, March 2, 1868 – † Zalaapáti, August 17, 1947 / Benedictine monk, cultural historian, university professor, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1905) ; ; Student at the Benedictine Teacher Training College in Pannonhalma in 1887–1890, and at the University of Budapest in 1890–1892. He earned a doctorate in humanities in 1892, and a teaching certificate in history and Latin in 1893. College professor in 1892–1910, then archivist and chief librarian in Pannonhalma, from 1911 university professor of Hungarian cultural history in Kolozsvár, then after the change of empire in Szeged between 1921–1938. Rector of the University of Szeged in 1936–1937. In 1938–1947 he was a retired university professor in Zalaapáti. He mainly dealt with medieval Hungarian cultural history. From 1898 he edited and partly wrote the series History of the Order of St. Benedict of Pannonhalma. He had a heated debate with Károly Tagányi (Nyitra) on the issues of social history in the Árpád era (Historical Review, 1913–1916). The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a corresponding member in 1905. In 1916 he was also accepted as a member of the Saint Stephen Academy. ; ; His main works: ; György Szerémi and his memoirs, 1892, ; The Order of St. Benedict of Pannonhalma I (In: The History of the Pannonhalma Abbey, also editor, 1902), ; Critical charters of the Abbey of Tihany (academic chair collection), 1906, ; Society of Hungary in its 11th century laws, 1907, ; Church landlord and his servants in the Middle Ages, 1907, ; History of the Abbey of Tihany (In: The History of the Order of St. Benedict of Pannonhalma, X.), 1908, ; The origin and nature of church property in Hungary, 1913, ; History of Hungarian culture I-II., 1915 and 1818, ; Saint Imre and his time, 1930, ; Society and culture of the Hungarian knighthood 1205–1526, 1932, ; Anonymous, the notary of Béla III, 1933, ; The hands of the father of our chronicles, 1933, ; The Generation of the Mohács Disaster, 1941, ; Fifty Historians about Saint Stephen, 1941, ; The Laws of Hungary from Saint Stephen to Mohács, 1942. ; ; Dániel Rózsár: Research on László Erdélyi (2015)