István Erdélyi (archaeologist)

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István Ferenc Erdélyi (born August 28, 1931 in Nagyvárad ; † April 7, 2020 ) was a Hungarian archaeologist and historian .

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István Erdélyi was the son of a postal worker. The family moved to Szentendre in 1944 , where István Erdélyi graduated from high school in 1950. He studied history at the Eötvös-Loránd University in Budapest with Gyula László , among others , passed the state examination in 1955 and received a diploma in medieval archeology for a thesis on the cemetery in Jánoshida in the Jászberény area . From 1955 to 1959 he went to Leningrad in the Soviet Union for postgraduate studies . There he took part in expeditions to six Union republics , including to Pskov and the Lower Volga . In 1957 he was involved in the excavation of a cemetery from the 11th century. In 1959, he was with a work over the Magyars in Levedia for "Kandidat Nauk" (PhD) PhD .

From 1959 to 1991 he worked in the archaeological research group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , which was later converted into a research institute . During this time he spent two and a half years doing research as a senior researcher at the Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow. In 1975 he started the first Soviet-Hungarian archaeological expedition, which carried out seven excavations in the Don region and in Hungary at the Keszthely-Fenékpuszta inland fort , in Csolnok in Komárom-Esztergom county and in Herpály in Hajdú-Bihar county . In 1976 he received the "Doktor Nauk" (Doctor of Science) of the Academy for the work Az Avarság és Kelet a régészeti források tükrében , which was published in 1982 in book form.

From 1984 he taught at various departments of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, and in 1985 he received the title of University Professor . From 1991 he also taught Hungarian prehistory and early history and archeology at the history department of the Art Society in Miskolc . From 1991 to 1999 he was involved in excavations at sites from the 9th to 11th centuries in Panyola in the small area of ​​Fehérgyarmat . Between 1961 and 1990 he took part in excavations in Mongolia as head of the Hungarian working group .

In 1993, at the invitation of Bishop Loránt Hegedüs, he participated in the founding of the Reformed University "Károli Gáspár" in Budapest, where he taught Hungarian prehistory and archeology and later headed the Institute for History. In 1996 he completed his habilitation at the Eötvös Loránd University. In 1998 he left the Reformed University and taught at the Eötvös Loránd University, Prehistory of Mongolia and Inner Asia . In 1999 he taught for two semesters at the Asia Center of the University of Pécs Pre- and Protohistory of Siberia and Mongolia.

Fonts

  • A jánoshidai avarkori temető. Budapest 1958 ( online ).
  • Az avarság és Kelet a régészeti források tükrében. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1982, ISBN 978-963-05-2705-7 .

The following are published in German:

  • The art of the Avars. Corvina, Budapest 1966, DNB 456552731 .
  • Selkupic dictionary. Tas dialect. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1969, DNB 573025673 . New edition: Mouton, The Hague 1970.
  • with Ojtozi Eszter, Wladimir F. Gening: The Newolino Cemetery. Excavations by AV Schmidt and the archaeological Kama expedition. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1969, DNB 363711317 .
  • with Ágnes Salamon : The Migration Period grave field of Környe. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1971, DNB 458003816 .
  • (Ed.): Ostjakische Heldenlieder. From József Pápay's estate. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1972, DNB 730094227 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erdélyi István (1931–2020) on the website of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, accessed on April 10, 2020 (Hungarian)
personal data
SURNAME Erdélyi, István
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erdélyi, István Ferenc (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian archaeologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagyvárad
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2020