Maria Radnoti-Alfoldi

Maria Radnoti-Alföldi , often just Maria R.-Alföldi , (born June 6, 1926 in Budapest ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist and numismatist of Hungarian origin .

Radnoti-Alföldi grew up as the only child of the doctor Geza Alföldi and his wife Olga in Budapest. After graduating from high school in 1944, she studied at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Budapest until 1949 . In 1947 she married the archaeologist Aladár Radnóti (1913–1972) and worked at the Hungarian National Museum until 1957 . From 1950 she received a teaching assignment for an exercise in the winter semester at Budapest University. After the suppression of the Hungarian uprising , she and her husband fled to Bavaria via Vienna in 1957 . From 1957 to 1962 Radnoti-Alföldi worked in Munich as a research assistant in the research project “ Fund coins of the Roman era in Germany ” (FMRD) of the German Research Foundation . In the summer semester of 1961 , she qualified as a professor at the University of Munich in the newly planned subject “ Ancient Numismatics ”. However, in 1962 she followed her husband to Frankfurt am Main , who received a professorship at the University of Frankfurt for the two subjects of auxiliary sciences in antiquity and the history and culture of the Roman provinces . After Aladár Radnoti's early death in December 1972, she took over his professorship in 1973. Until her retirement in 1991, she taught as a professor at the Department of Greek and Roman History, Department II (today: Department II of the Institute for Archaeological Sciences ), the subjects of archeology Roman provinces as well as auxiliary sciences of antiquity .

Radnoti-Alföldi is a specialist in the field of ancient numismatics. The focus of her research lies in the areas of found coin analysis, Roman history and the self-portrayal of the emperors. She headed the Greek Mint of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and, with Hans-Markus von Kaenel, the Fundmünzen der Antike (FdA) project of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz . She was responsible for many volumes for the Fundmünzen der Antike project . She is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and a full member of the German Archaeological Institute . Her scientific work has been recognized internationally, including the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society , London (1995), the Archer M. Huntington Medal of the American Numismatic Society , New York (2000); Honorary membership of the Austrian Numismatic Society , the Société Française de Numismatique , the Commission Internationale de Numismatique , the Hungarian Numismatic Society and the Hungarian Society for Antiquity Research. In 1992 Radnoti-Alföldi was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Fonts (selection)

• The Constantinian gold coinage. Investigations into their significance for imperial politics and court art. Publishing house of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, among others, Mainz 1963, (at the same time: Munich, University, habilitation paper, 1960/1961).
• The coins found in the Roman period in Germany. (FMRD). Department 4: Rhineland-Palatinate.
  • Volume 3/1: City of Trier. (3001-3002). Mann, Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-7861-1014-X ;
  • Volume 3/2: City and Reg.-Bez. Trier, the so-called Roman buildings. (3003-3020). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-3727-2 ;
  • Volume 3/4: City and Reg.-Bez. Trier, City of Trier, streets to the right of the Moselle A – K. (3022-3110). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-8053-3814-1 ;
  • Volume 3/5: City and Reg.-Bez. Trier, City of Trier, streets to the right of the Moselle L – Z. (3111-3186). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-8053-3858-5 ;
  • Volume 3/6: City and Reg.-Bez. Trier, city of Trier, districts to the left of the Moselle, Trier and the surrounding area. (3187-3197). Supplements and additions. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2008, ISBN 978-3-8053-3903-2 .
• Decadrachm. A research history phenomenon (= meeting reports of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Vol. 13, No. 4). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1976, ISBN 3-515-02402-6 .
• Ancient numismatics. Part 1: Theory and Practice (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 2). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-8053-0230-4 .
• Ancient numismatics. Part 2: Bibliography (= cultural history of the ancient world. Vol. 3). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-8053-0335-1 .
• as editor: Methods of Ancient Numismatics (= Paths of Research . Vol. 529). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1989 ISBN 3-534-07533-1 .
• Image and imagery of the Roman emperors. Examples and analyzes (= cultural history of the ancient world. Vol. 81). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2455-3 .
• Phoenix from the ashes. The Liburna, a founding monument of Constantinopolis (= meeting reports of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Vol. 42, No. 2). Steiner, Stuttgart 2004 ISBN 3-515-08612-9 .
• with Edilberto Formigli and Johannes Fried : The Roman she-wolf. An ancient monument falls (= meeting reports of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Vol. 49, No. 1). Steiner, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-09876-2 .

literature

• Hans-Christoph Noeske, Helmut Schubert (ed.): The coin. Image - message - meaning. Festschrift for Maria R.-Alföldi. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1991, ISBN 3-631-42640-2 (with list of publications).

Web links

• Literature by and about Maria Radnoti-Alföldi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Digitized books by Maria Radnoti-Alföldi in the Digital Library Numis

Remarks

1. ↑ Member of Maria Radnoti Alföldi's entry at the Academy of Sciences and Literature