Nándor Láng

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Nándor Láng (1911)

Nándor Láng (also Ferdinand Láng ; born January 3, 1871 in Deliblát , Temes County , Kingdom of Hungary ; † March 17, 1952 in Budapest , Hungary ) was a Hungarian archaeologist , historian and classical philologist .

Live and act

Nándor Láng was the son of a primary school teacher who died early. He attended the grammar school in Fehértemplom and studied at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. In 1892 he completed his studies in humanities , in 1894 he received a degree in classical philology. His teachers included the archaeologists and art historians József Hampel , Gyula Pasteiner and Béla Czobor and the philologists Jenő Ábel , Emil Ponori Thewrewk and Vilmos Pecz . In 1894 and 1895 he continued his archaeological studies with a government grant in Paris and visited galleries and museums in London, Belgium and Germany. From 1895 he taught at grammar schools in Budapest, including at the secondary Ágoston Trefort grammar school of the Eötvös Loránd University in District VIII . In 1905/1906 he visited Greece. In 1908 he became a teacher of Greek archeology at a technical college in Budapest. From 1914 to 1932 he was professor of archeology at the University of Debrecen and from 1926 also of Latin . From 1915 to 1916 he was dean of the faculty for art, languages ​​and history; From 1916 to 1917 he was rector of the university.

Nándor Láng dealt intensively in his research with the cult of Juppiter Dolichenus and wrote several papers on it. He examined the cultural and religious history of the Roman Empire , in particular the history of Aquincum . He analyzed and described the terracotta figures in the Aquincum Museum, the ivory reliefs of Heracles and Omphale and the torso of the Nemesis in the Hungarian National Museum . Láng completed the Ókori Lexicon (German Lexicon of Antiquity ) published by Vilmos Pecz (1854–1923 ) and wrote over 100 articles for it. According to contemporary scholars, he had a thorough knowledge of the sources and literature, and his work reflected the very latest in research.

The History Museum of the University of Debrecen was named after Nándor Láng in 1932. In 1949 it was merged with the departments of Classical Philology (Greek and Latin), the Department of Ancient History and the Archaeological Institute to form the “Institute for Ancient Sciences”, of which István Járdányi-Paulovics became the director.

Láng was with Elemér Császár the editor of the Egyetemes Philologiai Közlöny ( General Philological Journal ) of the Philological Society of Budapest from 1905 to 1914 and from 1946 to 1948 the editor of the Archaeologiai Értesítő ( Archaeological News ) of the Hungarian Society for Archeology and Art History.

Memberships

He was also an honorary member of the Hungarian Society for Archeology and Art History and a corresponding member of the Belgrade Archaeological Institute.

Awards and honors

Fonts

  • De latinitate codicis diplomatici hungarici andagavensis (= Analecta ad latinitatis Hungarorum dictionarium. Vol. II). Toldi, Budapest 1892, OCLC 457469040 .
  • Epidaurus . Egy antique fürdőhely. Budapest 1902, OCLC 1087739851 .
  • Odysseus hazája. Fritz, Budapest 1902, OCLC 1014893272 .
  • Az ősgörög műveltség és Homeros (= Emlékkönyv Beöthy Zsolt. Coll. 3). Athenaeum, Budapest 1908, OCLC 908970116 .
  • A debreceni Szent Anna templom. University of Debrecen, Debrecen 1930, OCLC 907487136 .
  • Hekler Antal élete és munkássága. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1942, OCLC 909025891 .
  • Egy pannóniai föliratról. Az ábécés föliratok értelmezése. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1946, OCLC 909102615 .

Articles and posts

  • A görög művészet története. In: A művészetek története. Lampel, Budapest 1905, OCLC 1014993690 , pp. 119-420.
  • Figurális terrakották az aquincumi múzeumban. In: Budapest Régiségei. 9, 1906, pp. 3-32 ( online ).
  • Kréta és Hellas. In: Akadémiai Értesítő. 24, 1, 1913, pp. 5-15 ( online ).
  • Heracles és Omphale. Elefántosont relief az aquincumi múzeumban. In: Budapest Régiségei. 10, 1923, OCLC 964625516 , pp. 3-34 (on- line ).
  • A Dolichenus-kultusz emlékei. In: Szent István Akadémia Értesítő. 22, 1923, pp. 90-97.
  • A brigetioi Dolichenum. In: Emlékkönyv Dr. Gróf Klebelsberg Kuno. Hírlap Nyomda, Budapest 1925, OCLC 1014988674 , pp. 94-106.
  • A Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Juppiter Dolichenus-keze. In: Emlékkönyv Károlyi Árpád. Budapest 1933, OCLC 1014812520 , pp. 323-334.
  • A Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Nemesis-torzója. In: Emlékkönyv Berzeviczy Albert. Budapest 1934, pp. 84-89.
  • Római rokokó bronzszobrocska az aquincum múzeumban. In: Budapest Régiségei. 12, 1937, pp. 3–24 ( online, Hungarian ), German summary: A Roman Rococo statuette made of bronze in Aquincum. Pp. 299-301 ( online) .
  • Egy pannoniai föliratról. Az ábécés föliratok értelmezése. In: Értekezések a Nyelv- és Széptudományok Osztálya Köréből. Budapest 1937, pp. 401-420. Reprint: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1946 ( online ).
  • Brigetio's Dolichenum. In: Laurae Aquincenses. Budapest 1941, pp. 165-181.
  • A savariai Dolichenus-csoportozat. In: Archaeologiai Értesítő. 1943, pp. 60-70.

literature

  • Zoltán Oroszlán: A nyolcvanéves Láng Nándor köszöntése. For the 80th birthday of Nándor Láng. In: Archaeologiai Értesítő. 78, 1951, pp. 150-151.
  • Gyula Moravcsik: Láng Nándor. Obituary. In: Akadémiai Értesítő. 79, 1952, pp. 324-325 ( online) .
  • Tamás Gesztelyi: The scientific career of Nándor Láng. In: Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis. 19, 1983, pp. 7-11.
  • Ágnes Darab: The literary activity of Nándor Láng. In: Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis. 19, 1983, pp. 12-16.
  • Tamás Gesztelyi: Láng Nándor, az első bölcsész rektor élete és munkássága. In: Gerund. University of Debrecen University History Journal. 2, 1-2, 2011, pp. 32-40 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Nándor Láng  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Debreceni Egyetem története. 1912-2012. University of Debrecen, Debrecen 2012, p. 183
  2. ↑ Láng Nándor on kultura.hu
  3. ↑ Tamás Szebenyi, Orsolya Gyurka: Az antikvitás emlékei. Egy elfeledett egyetemi gyűjteményben. In: Határtalan Régészet. III, 3, 2018, p. 84 ( online at epa.oszk.hu)
  4. ↑ A Debreceni Egyetem története. 1912-2012. University of Debrecen, Debrecen 2012, p. 113
personal data
SURNAME Láng, Nándor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Láng, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian archaeologist, historian and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Deliblát , Temes County , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1952
Place of death Budapest , Hungary