Ferenc Dobos

Ferenc Dobos was born in Transylvania and completed his high school and university studies in Budapest. During his university years he rowed in BEAC and then in Hungária EE. In 1935 and 1936 as a member of the Hungarian coxless fours he won the national championship and finished second at the World College Games in 1935. A year later they participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics but they failed to reach the final. After the Olympics Dobos ended his sports career.

Dobos obtained his history-geography teacher certificate at the Pázmány Péter University in 1936, and defended his doctoral dissertation three years later at the Erzsébet University in Pécs. After graduating from university, he was a teaching assistant at the Institute of Literary History of the University of Pécs, and then he was appointed supervisor at Székelyudvarhely. During the war, he moved to Veszprém (where he was also a school inspector), and then returned to Udvarhely and became a high school teacher (between 1945 and 1948). In the 1950s, he taught at the Pedagogical Secondary School, and he returned to the high school in 1959 and worked there until his retirement (1972).