István Bardoly (1955) librarian, bibliographer and editor, studied the Humanities at Szombathely and at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He is currently Head of the Collections Department of the Office for the Protection of National Heritage, a position to which he rose from Librarian of the Institute of Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1983–85), and Head of the Collection of the Hungarian Arts Encyclopaedia until 1995.