Pál Patay (archaeologist)

Pál Patay , later Pál von Patay , (born December 8, 1914 in Budapest , Hungary , † October 4, 2020 ) was a Hungarian archaeologist and museum curator .

Live and act

Pál Patay grew up in Acsa in Pest County . He later attended the Reformed Gymnasium in Budapest, which he graduated in 1932. In 1929, after visiting an uncle in Taktabáj, he became interested in archaeological finds. From 1932 to 1935 he first studied agricultural sciences at the Agricultural University Debrecen and graduated in 1935 with a diploma . In 1933, on the recommendation of Ferenc von Tompa, he also began studying archeology at the Péter Pázmány University in Budapest. In 1938 he wrote his diploma thesis on early Bronze Age culturesin Hungary, but due to the mobilization of the Hungarian army, he was only able to take his exam after completing military service in early 1939. He then became an unpaid teaching assistant at the University of Budapest, but had to do military service again. In early 1941, after the death of his father, he took over the family property, and in September 1941 he was called up again for reserve service. In 1944 he was appointed lieutenant in the reserve . On February 8, 1945 he was sent to several camps in the Soviet Union as a prisoner of war and finally to POW camp 270 in Borowitschi . There he was released in the summer of 1947.

Until 1949 he was still a lecturer at the University of Budapest, after which he worked from 1950 in the Palóc Museum in Balassagyarmat . In 1957 he went to work at the Hungarian National Museum , where he was curator and head of department . He retired in 1982, and later worked again as a scientific consultant from 1993 to 1995. He mainly deals with the Copper Age and the Bronze Age . He led several excavations, including in Berettyóújfalu , Alsótelekes , Tiszavalk , Tiszalúc and the Limes Sarmatiae .

In 1951, while working in the Palóc Museum, Pál Patay began to study bells in addition to his archaeological research . He has climbed around 1,300 church towers in Hungary, conducted archival research and has data on around 17,000 bells. So in the 1980s - mediated by the archaeologist Albrecht Jockenhövel - contact was made with the German Bell Museum , to whose scientific council he was elected. He was an honorary member of the Bell Museum.

On December 8, 2014, a ceremony took place in the State Hall of the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest on the occasion of his 100th birthday, until 2015 the exhibition A Patay 100 - A magyar régészet élő történelme című ( Patay 100 - The History of Hungarian Archeology ) was shown. On his 101st birthday he was honored with a ceremony by the Agricultural University of Debrecen.

Memberships

• from 1931: Hungarian Archaeological and Art History Society
• from 1947: Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (until 1984 in the Conseil Permanent, from 1984 in the Conseil d'Honneur)
• from 1971: Corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute

Awards

• Bálint Kuzsinszky Medal (1943), Ferenc Móra Medal (1970), Flóris Rómer Medal (1978), Ferenc Széchényi Medal (1994)
• 2004: Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit

Fonts

Pál Patay wrote thirteen monographs and over 100 other works. The following were published in German:

• Old bells in Hungary. Corvina, Budapest 1977, ISBN 978-963-13-0076-5 .
• The Copper Age burial ground of Tiszavalk-Kenderföld. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1978, ISBN 978-963-05-1462-0 .
• with Éva Garam , Sándor Soproni : Sarmatian wall system in the Carpathian Basin. Hungarian National Museum, Budapest 1983, ISBN 978-963-563-108-7 .
• Copper Age chisels, hatchets and axes in Hungary. Beck, Munich 1984, ISBN 978-3-406-09069-1 .
• The bronze vessels in Hungary. Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 978-3-406-33857-1 .
• Copper Age settlement of Tiszalúc. Hungarian National Museum, Budapest 2005, ISBN 978-963-7061-15-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Pál Patay in the catalog of the German National Library
• Károly Boros: Patay Pál - régész. In: demokrata.hu. November 11, 2009 (Hungarian, interview with Pál Patay). 
• Sebastian Wamsiedler: Ceremony for the 100th birthday of our honorary member Dr. Pál Patay in Budapest. In: glockenmuseum.de . March 9, 2015 . 
• Patay Pál. In: Magyar Katolikus Lexikon. July 3, 2020(Hungarian). 
• 100 éves Patay Pál régész. In: mult-kor.hu. December 8, 2014(Hungarian). 
• Literature by and about Pál Patay in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elhunyt a Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum legidősebb munkatársa, dr. Patay Pál. In: mnm.hu . October 5, 2020, accessed October 5, 2020 (Hungarian). 
2. ↑ Berettyóújfalu, Földvár. In: Archaeological Database of the Hungarian National Museum. Retrieved October 6, 2020 (Hungarian). 
3. ↑ Alsótelekes, Dolinka-domb. In: Archaeological Database of the Hungarian National Museum. Retrieved October 6, 2020 (Hungarian). 
4. ^ Tiszavalk, Tetes. In: Archaeological Database of the Hungarian National Museum. Retrieved October 6, 2020 (Hungarian). 
5. ↑ Tiszalúc, Sarkadpuszta. In: Archaeological Database of the Hungarian National Museum. Retrieved October 6, 2020 (Hungarian). 
6. ^ Sándor Soproni : Limes Sarmatiae. (pdf; 1.7 MB) In: Yearbook of the Ference Móra Museum 2. 1969, pp. 117–133, here p. 119, footnote 6 , accessed on October 6, 2020 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Sebastian Wamsiedler: Ceremony for the 100th birthday of our honorary member Dr. Pál Patay in Budapest. In: glockenmuseum.de . March 9, 2015, accessed October 5, 2020 . 
8. ↑ 100 éves Patay Pál régész. In: mult-kor.hu. December 8, 2014, accessed October 5, 2020 (Hungarian). 
9. ↑ Egy 101 éves bácsi kapta az egyetem történetének első platina diplomáját. In: Hajdú Online. September 4, 2015, archived from the original on September 18, 2015 ; accessed on October 6, 2020 (Hungarian). 
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Patay Pál. In: Ki kicsoda a magyar régészetben - Who's Who in Hungarian Archeology. Archived from the original on April 1, 2016 ; accessed on October 6, 2020 (Hungarian).