Bela Szoke

* Malacka, February 26, 1913 – † Győr, November 29, 1961 / archaeologist, museum director, ; high school teacher ; ; After World War I, his parents settled in Érsekújvár. He graduated from the local high school in 1932. Between 1932 and 1935, he studied law at the University of Brno, then transferred to the Comenius University in Bratislava, where he became a history-Hungarian teacher candidate, and finally completed his studies at the Pázmány Péter University in Budapest in 1940. From 1940, he was a high school teacher first in Nagysurány and then in Érsekújvár. While still a student, he was one of the initiators of the establishment of the Érsekújvár Museum. After 1938, the Little Great Plain Research Institute was founded in the city, which published the results of its archaeological excavations (Érsekújvár–Téglagyár, Bajcs–Ragonya, Naszvad–Anyala, Komját, Zsitvabesenyő, Pozsonyvezekény). In 1946, he settled in Hungary, and in 1948 he earned a doctorate in humanities from the University of Szeged. Between 1946 and 1961, he was an employee of the Győr Museum, then its director. In this capacity, he enriched the early medieval archaeology, settlement history and ethnography of Transdanubia and the Little Great Plain with much knowledge. He also actively contributed to the cultivation of Hungarian-Slovak scientific relations. A serious lung disease did not prevent him from conducting research, but he could only be awarded the degree of candidate of historical sciences after his death. ; ; His main works: ; Conquest-era graves in Naszvad, 1941; Conquest-era graves in Pozsonyvezekény, 1944; Memories of the old fishing industry in Érsekújvár, 1948; Chapters from the early medieval history of Győr, 1959; Archaeological relics of the Hungarians of the Conquest and early Árpád period, 1962.