Miklos Szabo

* Deáki, 23 May 1884 – † Budapest, 25 March 1960 / teacher, classical philologist ; ; His father, Zsigmond Szabó, was a parish priest in Deáki. In 1894 the family moved to Győr. Miklós Szabó also completed his high school studies here. As a member of the Eötvös College, he earned a doctorate in humanities in 1906 and a teaching degree in 1907 at the University of Budapest. He was a teacher at the Eötvös College from 1911, its deputy director from 1929, and its director between 1935 and 1945. In 1944 he came under the crossfire of far-right attacks, but in April 1945 representatives of the new government called on him to voluntarily resign from the head of the institution. In 1945–1947, he worked in the library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Already in retirement, he began compiling a large Greek-Hungarian dictionary containing the vocabulary of ancient Greece. This work was eventually continued by Alajos Györkösy, and then completed by István Kapitánffy and Imre Tegyey. He primarily translated the works of the great ancient Greek philosophers into Hungarian (Aristotle: Nichomachoszi Ethika I-II., 1942, Organon, 1961, Plato: Az államt, 1943). ; ; His main work: A beszek ekreteleze Homeros költeményiben, 1906.