József Hampel

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József Hampel
József Hampel (1885), portrait by Zsigmond Pollák

József Hampel (also Joseph Hampel ; born November 10, 1849 in Pest , Kingdom of Hungary ; † March 25, 1913 in Budapest , Hungary ) was a Hungarian archaeologist and museum curator .

Live and act

József Hampel comes from a German family. He attended high school in Pest and initially studied law . In 1868 his work on the dignity of the ban appeared , which played an important role in the Hungarian-Croatian settlement . Then he went on to study archeology. In 1870 he published the dissertation Aquincum történetének vázlatát ( Overview of the History of Aquincum ) and in the same year began his work in the coin and antiques department of the Hungarian National Museum .

In 1876 he was secretary of an international archaeological congress in Budapest, whose conference materials he published in French with Flóris Rómer . In the same year he organized a national archaeological exhibition, the catalog of which he also published in French. In 1877 he completed his habilitation, in 1880 he was appointed associate professor . He gave his lectures early in the morning and then began his work in the National Museum, where he was now head of the coin and antiques department . In 1890 he became a full professor of Classical Archeology at the Eötvös Loránd University as the successor to Károly Torma .

His main research interests included the Bronze Age , the art of antiquity , especially goldsmithing , provincial Roman archeology , especially Pannonia , and the rule of the Avars in the Pannonian Plain , for which he derived new knowledge on the basis of purely archaeological information. He also dealt with problems of migration and everyday culture in Hungary. He endeavored to sift through all the available material and to process it scientifically. The German edition of his work summary became a standard work in international archaeological literature. One of his students was Bálint Kuzsinszky .

József Hampel's grave

For his scientific work he was awarded the title of Hofrat .

In 1883 he married the daughter of the Hungarian archaeologist and politician Ferenc Pulszky Polixénia Pulszky, who was also active as an archaeologist, art historian and writer. They had three sons and a daughter. József Hampel was buried in Budapest on the Kerepesi temető in a tomb with Ferenc Pulszky, Therese Pulszky and other people, which was designed by the sculptor Gyula Donáth. A memorial plaque created in 1914 by the sculptor István Tóth can be seen in the Aquincum Museum.

Memberships

  • 1874: Corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute
  • 1878: Founding member of the Hungarian Archaeological and Ethnological Society
  • 1884: Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • 1888: External member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  • 1890: Speaker of the Archaeological Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • 1892: Full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • 1893: Full member of the German Archaeological Institute

He was also a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London , the Austrian Archaeological Institute , the Archaeological Society of Athens , the Anthropological Society in Vienna , the Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies and the International Association of Museum Directors.

Fonts

József Hampel published around 400 scientific papers.

The following were published in German:

  • The gold find of Nagy-Szent-Miklos, so-called "Treasure of Attila". Contribution to the history of art of the migration epoch. Kilian, Budapest 1885, OCLC 457615934 .
  • Antiquities of the Bronze Age in Hungary. Kilian, Budapest 1887, DNB 573638624 .
  • What does Aeschylus' Oresty teach about the theater question? An investigation into the location of actors in the theater of Dionysus in Athens in the 5th century. Calve, Prague 1899, OCLC 1068538411 .
  • Antiquities of the early Middle Ages in Hungary. 3 volumes. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1905. Reprinted by Gregg, Westmead, Farnborough, Hampshire 1971, ISBN 0-576-19319-4 .
Volume 1: Systematic Explanation. ISBN 0-576-19320-8 .
Volume 2: Description of the find. ISBN 0-576-19321-6 .
Volume 3: Atlas. ISBN 0-576-19322-4 .

From 1885 he was editor of the Archaeologiai Értesítő ( Archaeological News ) and from 1890 editor of the Archaeologiai Közlemények ( Archaeological Announcements ).

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Géza Supka: Hampel József. In: Nyugat . 11, 1913 ( online, Hungarian )
  2. ^ Congrès international d'anthropologie et d'archéologie préhistoriques. Compte-rendu de la huitième session à Budapest, 1876. Franklin, Budapest 1876–1877, OCLC 15035111 .
  3. ↑ Catalog de l'exposition préhistorique des musées de province et des collections particulières de la Hongrie. Franklin, Budapest 1876, OCLC 24429208 .
  4. ↑ Hampel József-emléktábla on kozterkep.hu
  5. ↑ Krónika. In: Művészet. 1917, pp. 21-40, here p. 38
personal data
SURNAME Hampel, József
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hampel, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian archaeologist and museum curator
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Pest , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1913
Place of death Budapest , Hungary