Art historian. He worked for the Ancient Ages Department of the Museum of Fine Arts since 1941. He was elected chairman of the revolutionary committee of the museum in October 1956. He was dismissed and replaced to the Déri Museum of Debrecen. In 1958 he was re-assumed at the Museum of Fine Arts. He was university professor at Loránd Eötvös University. He was secretary general of the Association of Classical Studies and editor of the Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts.