Péter Gróf

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Péter Gróf (* 1956 in Kaposvár ) is a Hungarian medieval archaeologist .

Life

Gróf attended the Karikás Frigyes grammar school in Fonyód until 1975 and then studied medieval archeology from 1976 to 1982 at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest . In 1982 he finished his studies with a diploma thesis on the Avar period burial ground of Abony . Gróf also graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in the preservation of monuments . Since 1983 he has been curator of the archaeological collection at the Mátyás Király Múzeum (King Matthias Museum) in Visegrád with Dániel Gróh .

From 1994 to 1999 he led the excavations at the late antique small fort Visegrád-Gizellamajor and the associated burial ground. During these years, the nearby Visegrád-Lepence castle was exposed almost at the same time . From 1999 to 2004 he was, among other things, investigating an Arpad period settlement in the Visegrád-Várkert district. Further excavations from 1984 concerned the medieval town center of Visegrád.

At the Hungarian National Museum , Gróf has been giving practical archaeological courses for prospective monument technology assistants since 1996 .

In 1983 he became a member of the Magyar Régészeti és Művészettörténeti Társaság (Hungarian Society for Archeology and Art History) and in 2006 was a founding member of the Magyar Régész Szövetség (Association of Hungarian Archaeologists).

Fonts (selection)

  • Egy avarkori sárkányábrázolásról (About an Avar time dragon representation.) . In: A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve 1984–1985 / 2 (1991), pp. 321–335.
  • Újabb adatok Visegrád kora Árpád-kori topográfiájához (New Contributions to the Early Arpád Topography of Visegrád) . In: A Herman Ottó Múzeum évkönyve 30-31 / 2 (1993), pp. 513-534.
  • with Dániel Gróh : Előzetes jelentés a Visegrád-gizellamajori római erőd feltárásáról (Preliminary report on the excavation of the Roman fortress of Visegrád-Gizellamajor) . In: Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungaricae 1991 (1993), pp. 86-95.
  • with Dániel Gróh: Visegrád római emlékei (=  Altum Castrum 6), Buzás Gergely, Visegrád 2006, ISBN 978-963-7061-31-8
  • Visegrád , Mikesy, Visegrád 2009, ISBN 978-963-06-8285-5
  • with Dániel Gróh: Visegrád római kori emlékei . (=  Vezető a római limes világörökségre jelölt magyarországi helyszínein 4). Visegrád 2011, ISBN 978-963-7474-30-9

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Péter Gróf: Az Abonyi avarkori temető. Egyetemi diplomamunka ELTE, Budapest 1982.
personal data
SURNAME Gróf, Péter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian medieval archeologist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaposvár