Dezső Várkonyi Hildebrand

* Kéménd, August 3, 1888 – † Budapest, May 20, 1971 / Benedictine teacher, philosopher, psychologist ; ; Brother of Nándor Várkonyi (1896–1975), writer and cultural historian. He graduated from high school in Nitra and completed his college studies at the Teacher Training College of the Pannonhalma Abbey in 1906–1911. In 1913, he obtained a secondary school teacher's certificate and a doctorate from the Budapest University of Science and Technology. In 1928–1929, he was on a study trip to Paris, at the Sorbonne University, as a scholarship holder. He was habilitated as a university professor on December 27, 1929, and between 1930 and 1940 he was the head of the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology of the Ferenc József University of Szeged, and between 1940 and 1944 he was the head of the Institute of Psychology of the University of Cluj-Napoca. He moved to Budapest in 1945. In 1947 he left the Benedictine order and started a family. He taught at the University of Budapest until his retirement in 1954. He worked in several areas of the social sciences: philosophy, pedagogy, psychology and child psychology. He had many distinguished doctoral students and students: Tomori Viola (1911–1998) sociologist and psychologist, Reitzer Béla (1911–1942) lawyer, sociologist, Radnóti Miklós (1909–1944) poet, Ortutay Gyula (1910– ; 1978) ethnographer, Baróti Dezső (1911–1994) literary historian and others. ; ; His main works: ; The Philosophy of Consciousness, 1922, ; The Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1923, ; Space and Perspective of Space, 1925, ; The Current State of Psychology, 1928, ; Introduction to Educational Psychology, 1937, ; The Physical and Spiritual Development of the Child, 1942, ; Disturbances of Spiritual Life, 1943; Diary Fragments, 1973; Pascal Interpretations, 2003.