A karsztoktól a környezetgazdálkodásig. Beszélgetés Fodor Istvánnal

István Fodor was born in Szeged in 1938, graduated from the University of Debrecen in 1961 with a degree in History and Geography. Since 1966 he has been a staff member of the Transdanubian Institute of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS). The Institute had a decisive importance in his professional career. He became a Candidate of Geography in 1976 and a Doctor of the HAS in 2002. He was involved in higher education for most of his career. He was the Associate Professor and then Head of the Department of Environmental Geography and Meteorology at the Faculty of Sciences at Janus Pannonius University. In 1996, he was appointed a university professor. He was President of the Hungarian Karst and Cave Research Society, headed several committees of the Academic Committee of the HAS in Pécs. He was a member of the Board of the International Union of Speleology, just like the Board of the International Speleoterapic Committee. This semi-structured interview was conducted at his home in October 2021. The aim of the article is to present the most important stages of the professor’s career, his personal relationship with geography and the factors that shaped his professional development.