Dénes Gabler

Dénes Gabler (born December 29, 1939 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian provincial Roman archaeologist .

Life

Dénes Gabler attended the Sándor Petőfi High School in Budapest from 1954 to 1958 and then studied archeology and Latin from 1958 to 1963 at the Eötvös Loránd University . During his work at the Xantus János Múzeum in Győr , which lasted from 1963 to 1968 , he received his doctorate in 1964 (egyetemi doktor; Dr. univ.). Since 1968 he has been employed at the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. In 1986 he received his doctorate as a candidate in the history of archeology and received the academic degree Candidatus scientiarum (C.Sc.). In 2005, the Magyar Tudományos Akadémia doktora (MTA doktora; D.Sc.) doctorate followed with a further doctorate . From 1992 to 2011 he also taught at the Archaeological Institute of the Eötvös Loránd University. With the establishment of the Humanities Research Center (Bölcsészettudományi kutatóközpont; MTA BTK) at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2012, Gabler and the Archaeological Institute also came under this new roof.

His main areas of research are Roman ceramics ( Terra sigillata ), the history of Roman settlements in Pannonia in the early imperial period, and Roman provincial sculpture in Hungary. An essential part of his excavation work dealt with the western Hungarian section of the Limes Pannonicus . From 1966 to 1970 and in 1969 and 1974 he carried out excavations at the Quadrata inland fort near Lébény-Barátföldpuszta. From 1966 to 1967 and again from 1970 to 1972 he led excavations at the Ad Statuas fort (Ács-Vaspuszta) and worked in the vicus of the Arrabona fort (Győr) from 1968 to 1969 . Further research in the fort vici and the associated burial grounds along the Pannonian Danube Limes supplemented these activities. From 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1975 he uncovered a large late Roman cemetery near Mosonszentmiklós-Jánosházapuszta. Between 1965 and 1966 Gabler researched an early imperial villa rustica on the Calvary of Fertőrákos and in 1969 a late Roman villa in Szakony-Békástó. From 1983 to 1999 the early imperial villa of San Potito near Ovindoli ( Abruzzo ) followed.

Gabler is editor-in-chief of Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae and a member of several archaeological societies. This includes the Régészeti Tudományos Bizottság (Archaeological Scientific Association, voting member), the Magyar Régészeti és Művészettörténeti Társulat (Hungarian Society for Archeology and Art History), the Magyar Ókortudományi Archaeological Institute ), and the Austrian Archeological Institute (Austrian Archeological Society) . He is also a member of the Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores , an international association that has set itself the task of researching Roman ceramics.

Awards

• Bálint Kuzsinszky Medal (1982)
• Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class (1994)
• Flóris-Rómer Medal (2000)
• Italia nostra (2004)
• György Ránki Prize (2002)
• István Schönvisner Prize (2010)

literature

• Szilvia Bíró (Ed.): Ex officina… Studia in honorem Dénes Gabler. Mursella Régészeti Egyesület, Győr 2009, ISBN 978-963-06-8587-0 (therein p. 17-28 list of publications).

Fonts (selection)

• Italian sigillates from the Canabae Legionis in Carnuntum. In: Carnuntum yearbook. 1990 (1991), pp. 229-252.
• Arrabona stone carving. In: 2nd International Colloquium on Problems of Provincial Roman Art. Veszprém 1991 (1992), pp. 205-224.
• with Hans-Jörg Kellner : The picture stamps of Westerndorf II - Helenius and Onniorix. In: Bavarian history sheets. 58, 1993, pp. 185-270.
• with Zoltán Farkas: The sculptures of the urban area of ​​Scarbantia and the Limes route Ad Flexum-Arrabona (=  Corpus signorum imperii Romani, Hungary. 2). Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1994.
• An imperial villa in central Italy near San Potito di Ovindoli. In: Eckart Olshausen , Holger Sonnabend (Hrsg.): Stuttgart Colloquium on the Historical Geography of Antiquity . 5, 1993. Gebirgsland als Lebensraum Amsterdam, 1996, pp. 245-262.
• The Roman road station in Sárvár and its predecessor buildings from the 1st century AD. In: Carnuntum yearbook. 1997 (1998), pp. 23-82.
• Italian sigillates with potter's stamp in Pannonia. In: Alba Regia. 29, 2000 (2001), pp. 75-98.

Web links

• Denes Gabler , CV, Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, accessed on February 10, 2016
• Who's Who of Hungarian Archeology , accessed February 10, 2016