Edit B. Thomas

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edit Baja Thomas (born March 10, 1923 in Werschetz , † March 3, 1988 in Budapest , Hungary ) was a Hungarian provincial Roman archaeologist .

Life

Edit's father, Antal Thomas, worked as an architect for the Hungarian State Railways . Her mother's name was Gizella Szalay. In 1941 she completed her school attendance at the grammar school of the Sisters of the Divine Redeemer St. Margit in Budapest and enrolled at the then Péter Pázmány University . In addition to classical , Roman provincial and Christian archeology, she also studied art history . After graduating, she completed a year of practical experience at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest and in 1948 submitted her doctoral thesis on Roman villa architecture in Pannonia . In the same year she began a free internship at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the Péter Pázmány University and then got a job as a research assistant .

When the Communist Party came to power in 1949, the cultural scene in Hungary was completely rebuilt from 1950 onwards, following the Stalinist model. Thomas found a new job at the Hungarian National Museum . She stayed there until she retired. In January 1952 she was appointed head of the documentation department of the museum archive and from 1955 to 1956 she worked as a scientific secretary . She then looked after the archaeological library of the house from 1957 to 1958. Thomas later described these two years as the most productive time for her own research. In 1959 she became curator of the archaeological department for Roman times and from January 1, 1969 she was director of the restoration department of the National Museum. In 1979 Thomas retired and died in 1988 after several unsuccessful operations.

Thomas's specialist areas included research into the Roman city of Aquincum , villa excavations in Annonen, investigations on the Limes Pannonicus and Roman militaria . She also directed various excavations, such as in 1963 at the Matrica fort near Százhalombatta -Dunafüred.

In September 1943 Thomas married Lieutenant Ferenc Emil Jankovich (* 1920), who had fallen in 1944 in Budapest. The two had a daughter. After the Second World War , she married József Baja (1908–1990) for the second time.

Fonts (selection)

  • Helmets, shields, daggers. Studies of Roman-Pannonian weapons finds , Hakkert, Amsterdam 1971.
  • Pannoniarol. About Pannonia . Tihany, 1970
  • Baláca. Mozaik, freskó, stukkó . Akademiai Nyomda, Budapest, 1964
  • Roman villas in Pannonia (=  contributions to the history of Pannonian settlement ), Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1964.
  • with László Vértes: Archaeological finds in Hungary . Corvina Kiadó, Budapest 1956

literature

  • Imre Jakabffy: Bibliography of the scientific activity of Edit B. Thomas . In: Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 42 (1990), pp. 333-335.
  • Endre Tóth : B. Thomas Edit (1923–1988) . In: Folia archaeologica 1989, 40, pp. 7-8.
  • Jan Filip (Ed.): Encyclopaedic Handbook on Prehistory and Early History Europe 2, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne / Mainz 1966, p. 1455.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Paul Lendvai : The Hungarians. A millennium of winners in defeats . Bertelsmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-570-00218-7 , pp. 475-477.
  2. ^ Endre Tóth : B. Thomas Edit (1923–1988) . In: Folia archaeologica 1989, 40, pp. 7-8; here: p. 8.
  3. ↑ Helmuth Furch , Historisches Lexikon Kaisersteinbruch: Edith B. Thomas, Roman villas in Pannonia (No. 57 of the map: Ödes Kloster) 1964.2 volumes. Museum and cultural association, Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .
  4. ^ Hungarian Association for the Study of Family History , accessed on February 6, 2016; Email from Dr. Mária Bakay on February 9, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Edit B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baja Thomas, Edit (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian Provincial Roman Archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Werschetz
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1988
Place of death Budapest , Hungary