János Szilágyi

This article is about a Hungarian provincial Roman archaeologist; for the Hungarian classical archaeologist see János György Szilágyi .

János Szilágyi (born October 17, 1907 in Debrecen , † April 21, 1988 in Budapest , Hungary ) was a Hungarian provincial Roman archaeologist . He became internationally known for his systematic, comprehensive treatment of various Roman topics such as the brick stamp , demography , epigraphy and wage-price development.

life and career

From 1933 Szilágyi studied at the Royal Péter Pázmány University in Budapest. After his habilitation in 1947, he was appointed director of the Aquincum Museum in the same year . At the same time, Tibor Nagy (1910–1995) succeeded the late archaeologist Lajos Nagy (1897–1946) as head of the Archaeological Institute at the Historical Museum in Budapest. In 1936 the two founded the Archaeological Institute at the Historical Museum. Nagy also took over the management of the prehistory and early history department there. Szilágyi stayed at the Aquincum Museum until his retirement in 1971 and worked as an epigraphist for the Historical Museum in its antiquity department.

The main research areas of his work were the processing of the history of Roman Pannonia , its archaeological research and, in particular, the Pannonian Roman military history. Studies of the Roman brick stamp established its international reputation. In addition, he published extensively on mortality and wage price developments during the Roman Empire and on the Pannonian inscriptions. He has also led some important excavations.

Szilágyi was secretary of the Hungarian Society for Archeology and Art History (Magyar Régészeti és Művészettörténeti Társulat) and was a member of the main committee of the Archaeological Institute at the National Museum. From 1949 to 1953 he was editor of the important Hungarian journal Archeológiai Értesítő (Archaeological Information) in Budapest.

In honor of the scientist, a street, the Szilágyi János utca , was named after him in his hometown .

Publications

Szilágyi worked, among other things, as an author for the Little Pauly (KlP), a specialist encyclopedia of ancient studies . His most important writings include the following publications:

• Inscriptiones tegularum Pannonicarum . Dissertationes Pannonicae . Ser. II. Budapest 1933.
• Aquincum és északkelet Pannonia katonai megszállása. The Roman occupation of Aquincum and northeast Pannonia. Laureae Aquincenses I. Dissertationes Pannonicae . Ser. II, 10. Budapest 1938.
• Pannoniai római segédcsapattestek bélyeges téglái és táborhelyei. Roman auxiliary troops, their brick stamps and deposits in Pannonia. In: Archaeologiai Értesitö 3 , Budapest 1942, pp. 173-189.
• Az Aquincumi Múzeum Kutatásai és Gyarapodása (The research and acquisitions of the Aquincum Museum in the years 1936–1942.). In: Budapest Régiségei 13, 1943, p. 340ff.
• The crews of the defense system of Dazien and their brick temples (A Daciai erödrendszer helyörsegei es a katonai teglabelyegek). Institute for Coin Studies and Archeology at the Peter Pazmany University, Budapest 1946, p. 73 Dissertationes Pannonicae . Ser. II, 21. (in German and Hungarian.)
• Important results of Roman excavations in the Budapest area and valuable additions to the museum in Aquincum in the years 1951–1953. Budapest Régiségei 16, 1955, pp. 387-426.
• Aquincum. Budapest, Berlin 1956. (German edition)
• Contributions to the statistics of mortality in the western European provinces of the Roman Empire. In: Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 13, 1961, pp. 125-155.
• Contributions to the statistics of mortality in the Illyrian provincial group and in northern Italy (Gallia Padana) . In: Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 14, 1962, pp. 297-396.
• Mortality in the cities of central and southern Italy and Hispania (during the Roman Empire) . In: Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 15, 1963, pp. 129-224.
• Mortality in the North African provinces I. In: Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 17, 1965, pp. 302–334.
• Mortality in the North African provinces II. In: Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 18, 1966, pp. 235-277.
• Mortality in the North African Provinces III. In: Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 19, 1967, pp. 25-59.
• The amphitheater of Aquincum. Budapest 1957.
• Stone inscriptions from the old collection of the Museum of Aquincum I. In: Archaeologiai Értesitö 92, 1965, pp. 182–191.
• Stone inscriptions from the old collection of the Museum of Aquincum II. In: Archaeologiai Értesitö 94, 1967, pp. 70ff.
• Stone inscriptions from the old collection of the Museum of Aquincum III. In: Archaeologiai Értesitö 96, 1969, pp. 72-82
• Controversial and unpublished stone inscriptions from the Aquincum Museum. In: Budapest Régiségei 22, 1971, pp. 301ff.
• Unpublished stone inscriptions from Aquincum. In: Budapest Régiségei 23, 1973, pp. 147–158.
• Inscriptions with historical background from Aquincum. In: Acta of the 5th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Cambridge 1967. Oxford 1971. pp. 311-316.
• On the development of the price and wage relationship in the Roman Empire. In: New Contributions to the History of the Old World, 2nd Roman Empire. Berlin 1965. pp. 133-139.
• On the development of construction costs in the western provinces during the Roman Empire. In: Arheološki vestnik 19, 1968, pp. 111-117.

literature

• Klára Póczy, Krisztina Szirmai: Dr. Szilágyi János (1907-1988). Szilágyi János megjelent művei. In: Budapest Régiségei 27, 1991, pp. 3-11.

Remarks

1. ^ Tibor Nagy (1910-1995). In: Acta archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 50, 1998, p. 263.
2. ^ Walter Kaupert: International art address book. German Central Printing Office, Berlin 1965. p. 372.