János György Szilágyi

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János György Szilágyi (born July 16, 1918 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; † January 7, 2016 ) was a Hungarian classical archaeologist who combined many philological and archaeological knowledge in his works . From 1951 to 1992 Szilágyi was director of the antiquities collection of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts . He was the recipient of the highest national award in Hungary , the Kossuth Prize .

life and work

Between 1936 and 1940 Szilágyi studied at the Royal Péter Pázmány University in Budapest. Karl Kerényi and Andreas Alföldi were among his teachers and Gábor Devecseri among his fellow students . He finished his studies with a language diploma in Latin and Hungarian and received his doctorate in 1941 .

Since 1947 Szilágyi worked for the antique collection of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts . From 1951 to 1992 Szilágyi was director of the Antikensammlung, where he continued to work as a scientist even after his retirement in 1992. During his decades of activity, Szilágyi organized many important exhibitions in the museum from 1948. In 1980, this included the show "The Birth of Rome", which was presented with many Italian loans, in 1985 a presentation of Scythian art and in 1989 the exhibition "The World of Etruscan Art". As an honorary professor he taught at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.

His areas of expertise included research into ancient Greek and Roman literature, early Greek and Roman art history and mythology, and Etruscan culture. In addition, he is an internationally recognized expert on Etrusco-Corinthian vase painting . Szilágyi also worked on newly acquired antique vessels for the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne, among many other things . With the two-volume work Ceramica etrusco-corinzia figurata (1992–1998) he presented the standard work on this topic.

From 1953 to 1957 Szilágyi was co-editor of the Hungarian journal Archeológiai Értesítő (Archaeological Information) in Budapest and from 1954 to 1985 co-editor of the Budapest-based journal Antik tanulmányok (Studia Antiqua). Between 1954 and 1957 and again from 1987 to 1994 he published the museum's own magazine A Szépművészeti Múzeum Közleményei .

He was a member of various national and international institutions, such as the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici as a corresponding member since 1962, the German Archaeological Institute (corresponding member since 1963, full member since 1985), the Hungarian Society for Classical Studies (Magyar Ókortudományi Társaság - 1964–1979 secretary, 1979–1985 vice president, 1985–1991 co-president) and the Istituto per la Storia e l'archeologia della Magna Grecia (member since 1983).

Szilágyi received numerous awards for his services, such as the Jenő Ábel Medal, the Flóris-Rómer Medal, the Ferenc Móra Medal, the Kossuth Prize (1991), the József Eötvös Kranz (1996), the prize the Soros Foundation (1998, 2000) and the Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2011).

Publications (selection)

Szilágyi wrote more than 500 publications for Hungarian, Italian, French, Czech and American journals and also published in German. Since its inception, he has been a member of the editorial advisory board of the international research project Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum, which has been ongoing since 1973, and of the reference work Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC) published from 1981 to 2009 .

His most important publications include:

  • Atellana. Tanulmányok az antik színjátszásról (Atellana. Studies on ancient drama). Budapest 1941 (= dissertation).
  • Görög művészet (Greek art). Budapest 1954.
  • Greco-Roman Collection - Guide. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 1957.
  • Etruszko-korinthosi vázafestészet (Etruscan-Corinthian vase painting). Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1975.
  • with Andreas Alföldi, Giacomo Manganaro : Roman Early History. Criticism and research since 1964. In series: Library of Classical Classical Studies . Carl Winter University Press, Heidelberg 1976.
  • Corpus Vasorum Quorum : Hongrie I, Budapest, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Fascicule I . Bonn and Budapest 1981.
  • Paradigmák: Tanulmányok az antik irodalomról és mitológiáról (Paradigms: Studies on ancient literature and mythology). Magvető Publishing House, Budapest 1982. ISBN 9632716922 .
  • Legbölcsebb az idő: Antik vázák hamisítványai (Time shows it: Fake antique vases). Corvina, Budapest 1987. ISBN 9631325377 .
  • Ceramica etrusco-corinzia figurata . Volume 1-2. Leo S. Olschki Verlag, Florence 1992, 1998. ISBN 88-222-3954-7 .
  • with Jan Bouzek : Hongrie et Tchécoslovaquie ( Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum ). L'Erma di Bretschneider, Rome 1992, ISBN 88-7062-774-8 .
  • Antique Gyűjtemény. Vezető az Antik Gyűjtemény állandó kiállításához (Antique Collection: A Guide to the Permanent Exhibition of the Antique Collection). Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest 2002.
  • Pelasg ősök nyomában. Magyar ásatás az Appenninekben 1861-ben . Szépművészeti Múzeum. Atlantisz, Budapest 2002. ISBN 9789639165670 .
    • English: In search of Pelasgian ancestors. The 1861 Hungarian excavations in the Apennines. Atlantisz Publishing House, Budapest 2004. ISBN 963-9165-75-1 .
  • Szirénzene - Ókortudományi tanulmányok ( Siren Music - Studies of Ancient History). Osiris Kiadó, Budapest 2005. ISBN 963-389-729-7 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Elhunyt Szilágyi János György: Gyász . Magyar Múzeum, January 7, 2016.
  2. ↑ Iván Boldizsár: The New Hungarian quarterly 19, 1978, p. 242.
  3. ^ János György Szilágyi, Friederike Fless : New acquisitions from the collection of the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne. In: Kölner Jahrbuch . Volume 32, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1999, p. 903.
  4. ↑ Az Ókortudományi Társaság: Alapszabálya . Rules of Procedure of the Hungarian Archeology Society, March 28, 2008 (Hungarian; MS Word ; 87 kB).
personal data
SURNAME Szilágyi, János György
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szilágyi, János
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2016