Hiador Sztripszky (1875-1946) is remembered as a Hungarian and Rusyn ethnographer, bibliographer and literary historian. He is also known for his linguistic achievements. During his years (1879-1908) in Kolozsvár (today Cluj, Romania) he shaped his scholarly interests at Franz Joseph University, offering excellent training in those years, and at the museums of the town. In his ethnographic and bibliographic works related to the Subcarpathian Rusyns, he directly utilized what he had studied in Kolozsvár. Hiador Sztripszky played a prominent role in the respective histories of Hungarian, Slovakian and Rusyn bibliographies. He produced an evaluation about the habilitation application submitted by Augustin Pável, Slovenian literary translator and philologist at the University of Szeged. Sztripszky also mentioned the activities of the applicant as a translator. Augustin Pável submitted his application for the position of university private lecturer entitled Southern Slavonic and Hungarian Literary Connections at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Szeged. He delivered a habilitation lecture titled King Matthias in Slovenian Literature and Folklore. Sztripszky's evaluation, dated 1 May 1940, is published in full.