Károly Torma
Károly Torma von Csicsókeresztúr (born October 13, 1829 in Kudu ( Coldău in Romanian ), Austrian Empire ; died February 28, 1897 in Anzio , Italy ) was a Hungarian landowner, politician and archaeologist.
Life
Károly Torma was the son of the landowner and historian József Torma (1801–1864), his sister Zsófia Torma (1832–1899) was also an amateur archaeologist. He attended school in Bistritz and the Lyceum in Cluj-Napoca , where he received his doctorate in law. At the beginning of the revolution of 1848/49 he was a clerk in the Transylvanian state parliament and then became a lieutenant in the 2nd Honvéd Jägerregiment. After the crackdown on the Hungarian struggle for freedom, he retired to the Csicsókeresztúr family estate and began archaeological excavations in the area.
In 1861 he became a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and in 1881 a full member. In 1867 he became a committee member of the Hungarian Historical Society .
Torma took in 1863 and 1865 participated in the Transylvanian diets, from 1867 to 1875 he was Lord Lieutenant of the county Inner-Szolnok . From 1865 he was a member of the Déak party , which reached the Austro-Hungarian Compromise in 1867 and won the majority in the Hungarian Reichstag in the elections in 1865, 1869 and 1872 . Torma was a member of the Reichstag from 1867 and 1872 to 1875, and from 1872 to 1875 he was Vice President of the House of Representatives.
From 1863 he published the results of his archaeological and historical research. In 1866 he edited parts of the diaries of the Transylvanian Prince Imre Thököly . He worked on the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum and published many articles on the archeology of Dacia .
From 1876 Torma was Professor of Public Law at the University of Cluj-Napoca . From 1878 to 1887 he was Professor of Archeology at the University of Budapest . During his time in Budapest in 1881 he played a major role in the archaeological development of the amphitheater of the Roman military camp Aquincum and was responsible for the establishment of the Aquincum Museum , which was opened after his retirement in 1894.
Torma lived in Italy since 1890. A street in the Óbuda district of Budapest was named after him.
Fonts (selection)
- Adalékok észak-nyugati Dácia föld- és helyiratához . Plague 1864.
- About some Dacian inscriptions . In: Communications of the kk Central Commission for the research and preservation of architectural monuments 1865.
- Késmárki Thököly Imre naplója 1676–1678 . Budapest 1866
- New inscriptions from Dacien . In: Archaeological-epigraphic messages from Austria-Hungary 3, 1879, pp. 86-102 ( digitized version ).
- Repertory Dácia régiség és felirattani irodalmához . Budapest 1880 ( digitized ).
- Az aquincumi amphiteatrum északi fele . Budapest 1881 ( digitized ).
- Inscriptions from Dacia, Moesia superior and Pannonia inferior . In: Archaeological-epigraphic messages from Austria-Hungary 6,1882, pp. 97–145 ( digitized version ).
literature
- Á. Z. Bernád: Torma from Csicsókeresztúr, Károly (Carl). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 408 f. (Direct links on p. 408 , p. 409 ).
Web links
- Torma Károly , at MEK (hu)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Torma József , at MEK (hu)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Torma, Károly |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Torma from Csicsókeresztúr, Károly (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian landowner, politician and archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kudu (Romanian Coldău ), Austrian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1897 |
| Place of death | Anzio |