Education
Having finished her secondary studies in Pécs, she studied art history at the University of Budapest, where she received a doctorate in 1938.
Having finished her secondary studies in Pécs, she studied art history at the University of Budapest, where she received a doctorate in 1938.
She worked as a librarian in the National Széchényi Library of Hungary, where she was a curator and cataloguer of the Apponyi collection, becoming a head librarian in 1945. In 1951, she was deported by the Communist authorities to a ranch near Szeged, together with her mother. In 1960, she left Hungary for Germany, where she worked first as a librarian in the provincial library (Landesbibliothek) in Coburg, and then from 1962 to 1976 as a cataloguer of incunabula in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich.
Most famous is her survey of existing copies of the 42-line Gutenberg Bible.
47 copies, and their owners, were identified. After this publication two more copies were found in Russia.
Later the overview was extended in the on-line British Library"s Incunabula Short Title Catalogue.