László Barkóczi

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László Barkóczi (born May 20, 1919 in Berettyóújfalu , Hajdú-Bihar County , Hungary ; † March 26, 2017 ) was a Hungarian provincial Roman archaeologist .

Barkóczi was born to Lajos Barkóczi and Mária Lőrincz. In 1938 he obtained the Matura at the royal Catholic Franz-Joseph-Gymnasium in the 2nd district in Budapest . From 1938 to 1944 he attended the Philosophical Faculty of the then Péter Pázmány University of Arts and Sciences in the Hungarian capital (now Loránd Eötvös University ). His main areas of study were Roman Provincial, Classical and Christian Archeology . From the war year 1941 he worked for Andreas Alföldi as an assistant, graduated in 1942 and became an assistant at Alföldi. At the same time he did an unpaid internship at the Hungarian National Museum .

His first excavations took place with the archaeologist Aladár Radnóti (1913–1972) between 1939 and 1942 in Porolissum , Transylvania - then part of Hungary - and in Szőny ( Brigetio legionary camp ). In the war year 1944 he successfully submitted his dissertation on the Roman civil town of Brigetio . In the same year he was drafted and used in the last defensive battles. Barkóczi was imprisoned in Strasbourg from 1945 on and returned to Hungary in 1946. He immediately resumed his work at the Hungarian National Museum, where he was employed as curator until 1959 . In 1947 he married Éva Kardos. In 1949 and 1952 his two sons László and István were born.

At the beginning his work focused on the exploration of the Limes Pannonicus in Hungary, where he led excavations at the Fort Intercisa in 1949 and 1950 . In the same years and 1954 he was busy with investigations at the Vetus Salina fort . In 1951 Barkóczi examined several early Roman barrows near Pusztaszabolcs . He invited the archaeologist Éva B. Bónis (1919–1999) to accompany his work on the graves, and in the same year began excavations at the late Roman inland fort Keszthely-Fenékpuszta . Various emergency excavations followed. In 1955 he was named a candidate for historical sciences in the archeology department by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . His corresponding dissertation contained a summary of the history of Intercisa known up to that point. From 1960 to 1962 he was the head of the Archaeological Department of the Hungarian National Museum. His areas of specialization were in particular the Limes research and epigraphy . In 1963 he became a senior member of the Archaeological Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which was renamed the Archaeological Institute in 1968. Barkóczi became the head of the Department of Antiquities at this institute. As a member of the research group, he took part in a Hungarian expedition to Egypt in 1964, digging in the Nubian excavation site Abdallah Nirqi, which was later submerged in the Aswan Dam . In 1967 Barkóczi was involved in international research in Carthage . In 1963 he became a senior member of the Archaeological Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which was renamed the Archaeological Institute in 1968. Barkóczi became the head of the Department of Antiquities at this institute. In 1970 the institute set up special fields of research, with Barkóczi assuming the role of head of the study area “Borders of the Roman Empire”. In 1979 the archaeologist became deputy director of the institute, but he was not ready to take on the director's position offered to him. Therefore, in 1982 he retired into private life and retired.

His scientific achievements were recognized with the silver medal in 1976 and the gold medal of the Hungarian Order of Merit in 1982. Barkóczi was a recipient of the Flóris-Rómer Medal from 1980 and was awarded the Pro Arte Vitraria Medal in 1990.

Fonts (selection)

  • Brigetio (=  Dissertationes Pannonicae. Ser. 2, 22). Institute for Coin Studies and Archeology at Peter Pázmány University, Budapest 1951.
  • u. a .: Intercisa (Dunapentele). History of the city in Roman times. 1-2. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1954–1957.
  • with András Mócsy : The Roman Inscriptions of Hungary (RIU). 1st delivery: Savaria, Scarbantia and the Ad Flexum Limes line. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1972, ISBN 9630506807 .
  • with Ágnes Salamon : The grave field of Szabadbattyán from the 5th century. The topographical location and research. In: Antaeus 5, 1974/75, pp. 89-111.
  • with András Mócsy: The Roman Inscriptions of Hungary (RIU). 2. Delivery: Salla, Mogentiana, Mursella, Brigetio. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1976, ISBN 90-256-0770-5 .
  • with Sándor Soproni : The Roman Inscriptions of Hungary (RIU). 3. Delivery: Brigetio (continued) and the Limes route on the Danube Bend. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1981, ISBN 963-05-2374-4 .
  • Pannonian glass finds in Hungary. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1988, ISBN 963-05-4286-2 .
  • Antique glasses. (= Monumenta antiquitatis extra fines Hungariae reperta 5). "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, Rome 1996. ISBN 88-7062-931-7 .

literature

  • Jan Filip : Encyclopedic manual on the prehistory and early history of Europe. Volume 1. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1966, p. 89.
  • Sándor Soproni: Barkóczi László 70 éves [László Barkóczi on his 70th birthday]. In: Archaeologiai értesítő 116, 1989, pp. 124–125.
  • Andrea Vaday (Ed.): Pannonia and beyond. Studies in honor of László Barkóczi. (= Antaeus. 24, 1997-1998). Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1999, therein:
    • Andrea Vaday: Biography of László Barkóczi. Pp. 9-11
    • Judit Solti: Bibliography of László Barkóczi. Pp. 13-20.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b András Gervai, Zoltán Erős, Péter Hermann, Tamás Tóth, Andrea Balázs: MTI Ki KICSODA 2009. Több mint 6000 élő magyar személy életrajza. Budapest 2008, p. 76.
  2. ↑ a b c d Andrea Vaday: László Barkóczi. In: Andrea Vaday (Ed.): Pannonia and beyond. Studies in honor of László Barkóczi (= Antaeus 24, 1997–1998). Budapest 1999, p. 9.
  3. ↑ a b Jan Filip: Encyclopedic Handbook on Prehistory and Early History in Europe. Volume I. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1966, p. 89.
  4. ↑ Jenő Fitz (ed.): The Roman Limes in Hungary. István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár 1976, p. 8.
  5. ^ A b Andrea Vaday: László Barkóczi. In: Andrea Vaday (Ed.): Pannonia and beyond. Studies in honor of László Barkóczi (= Antaeus 24, 1997–1998). Budapest 1999, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Barkóczi, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian Provincial Roman Archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Berettyóújfalu
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2017