Bálint Kuzsinszky

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Bálint Kuzsinszky

Bálint Kuzsinszky (also Valentin Kuzsinszky ; born November 6, 1864 in Szabadka , Kingdom of Hungary , † August 23, 1938 in Budapest , Hungary ) was a Hungarian archaeologist .

Live and act

Bálint Kuzsinszky studied classical philology at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Budapest and also studied archeology, numismatics and epigraphy . He took part in several study trips in Hungary and in Dalmatia , Austria , Italy and Germany . In 1887 he was at the excavations to Aquincum involved 1888 he was with a work about his doctorate . In 1890 he received a degree in his philological studies. His teachers included Jenő Ábel , József Hampel and Károly Torma . On the recommendation of Hampel and Torma, he became an apprentice in the coin and antiques department of the Hungarian National Museum in 1887 , and was employed there in 1889.

In 1894 he initiated the opening of the Aquincum Museum, of which he was director until 1937. In 1899 he was additionally entrusted with the administration of the Budapest City Museum, for which he worked until 1934; from 1899 to 1912 and from 1921 to 1934 he was director. He laid the foundation stone for the development of the Budapest History Museum .

From 1892 he taught at the University of Budapest, first as a private teacher for early cultural history and from 1901 for early world history . In 1911 he became an associate professor . After József Hampel's death in 1914, he took over his professorship for coin and antiquity . From 1923 to 1924 he was dean of the humanities faculty. In 1930 he retired .

In his teaching and research activities, he combined the classical history of the Roman Empire with provincial Roman archeology, in particular of the provinces of Pannonia and Dacia . He was mainly concerned with the Pannonian Limes , with Roman military camps , Roman pottery and Roman inscriptions .

Memberships

  • 1898: Corresponding member of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute
  • 1899: Corresponding member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute
  • 1907: Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • 1919: President of the Hungarian Archaeological Society
  • 1925: Full member of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute
  • 1926: Full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • 1930: Member of the Budapest Philological Society, from 1935 honorary member
  • 1933: Member of the Belgrade Archaeological Institute

Honors

In memory of Bálint Kuzsinszky, the Hungarian Archaeological and Art History Society has been awarding the “Bálint Kuzsinszky Medal” every year since 1941.

The archaeological library in the Aquincum Museum was named after him "Kuzsinszky Bálint Régészeti Szakkönyvtár". It comprises around 18,000 volumes, including works from the collection of Bálint Kuzsinszky, which his widow donated to the museum in 1939.

Fonts

  • A legújabb aquincumi ásatások. Dissertation. Budapest 1888. In: Budapest Régiségei. Volume 1. Budapest 1889, pp. 39-170 ( online ).
  • Aquincum és romjai. Franklin, Budapest 1890, OCLC 909016232 .
  • Az aquincumi amphitheater. In: Budapest Régiségei. Volume 3. Franklin, Budapest 1891, pp. 81-122, appendices pp. 123-139 ( online ).
  • The excavations at Aquincum 1879–1891. Kilian, Budapest 1892, OCLC 561135969 .
  • Pannónia római jogú városai. In: Egyetemes Philologiai Közlöny. 1892, pp. 361-376 ( online ).
  • Pannónia és Dacia. In: A magyar nemzet története. Volume I: Magyarország a királyság megalapításáig. Budapest 1895, OCLC 895216155 . Reprint: Kassák, Budapest 1994, ISBN 978-963-7765-58-2 .
  • Ujabb kőemlékek az aquincumi múzeumban. In: Budapest Régiségei. Volume 7. Budapest 1901, pp. 3-66 ( online ).
  • Aquincumi ásatások és a múzeum ismertenése. Budapest 1908, OCLC 1015055038 .
  • A Balaton környékének archaeologiája. Lelőhelyek és leletek. Kilian, Budapest 1920, OCLC 935111482 ( online ). Reprint: Históriaantik Könyvesház, Budapest 2010, ISBN 978-963997812-6 .
  • A legrégibb terra-sigillata edények Pannoniában. In: Archaeológiai Értesítő. Volume 40, 1923, pp. 88-113.
  • A gázgyári római fazekastelep Aquincumban. In: Budapest Régiségei. Volume 11, 1932, pp. 3-423 ( online ).
  • Aquincum helyrajza. In: Tanulmányok Budapest Múltjából. 2, 1933, pp. 32-39 ( online ).
  • Aquincum. Excavations and finds. Guide with a topographical and historical introduction. Budapest 1934, OCLC 786236541 .
  • Az Aquincumi Múzeum római kőemlékeinek ötödik sorozata. In: Budapest Régiségei. Volume 12, 1937, pp. 61-152 ( online , German summary pp. 302-307, online ).

literature

  • Nándor Láng : Valentino Kuzsinszky sexagenario. In: Országos Magyar Régészeti Társulat Évkönyvet. 1927, pp. 3-19 ( online ).
  • Géza Stöhr: Kuzsinszky Bálint irodalmi műveinek jegyzéke. (List of works by Bálint Kuzsinszky). In: Országos Magyar Régészeti Társulat Évkönyve. 1927, pp. 20-23 ( online )
  • Zoltán Oroszlán : Kuzsinszky Bálint, az egyetemi tanár. Régészeti Dolgozatok, 1964 ( online ).
  • Katalin K. Végh, Klára Szabó: Kuzsinszky Bálint hagyatéka és tudományos műveinek bibliográfiája. (The legacy of Bálint Kuzsinszky and bibliography of his scientific works). In: A Budapesti Történeti Múzeum Könyvtárának és Régészeti Adattárának ismertenése. Budapest 1991, pp. 100-117.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kuzsinszky Bálint. In: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Almanach. Budapest 1926, p. 34.
  2. ↑ Választmányi tagok In: Egyetemes Philologiai Közlöny. Budapest 1930, p. II.
  3. ↑ Kuzsinszky Bálint Régészeti Szakkönyvtár on aquincum.hu
personal data
SURNAME Kuzsinszky, Bálint
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuzsinszky, Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Szabadka , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1938
Place of death Budapest , Hungary