Zoltán Oroszlán

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Zoltán Oroszlán (born March 16, 1891 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; † January 9, 1971 ibid) was a Hungarian archaeologist , art historian and museologist .

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Zoltán Oroszlán attended the reformed grammar school in Budapest. He then studied at the Technical University of Budapest and received a master's degree in natural sciences in 1913 and a degree in humanities in 1918 . In 1914 he completed an internship in the coin and antiques department of the Hungarian National Museum . From 1914 to 1917 he taught military geography and military history at the Ludovika Academy . From 1917 to 1919 he worked as a secretary at the newly founded Balassi Institute in Constantinople . In 1919 he was employed in the Hungarian National Museum and from 1923 in the Szépművészeti Múzeum . There he later became head of the Egyptian sculpture collection , which he built up together with Aladár Dobrovits (1909–1970) and Antal Hekler (1882–1940). After Dénes Csánky left , he was general director of the museum from 1944 to 1945. From 1936 to 1945 he also taught at the University of Science in Szeged .

After the Second World War , he led the reconstruction work on the Szépművészeti Múzeum. In 1946 he was a member of a committee that compiled the museum's loss lists and identified the works of art in Frankfurt am Main and Munich .

In 1945 he became a professor at the Eötvös Loránd University. In 1952 he became a full professor for Classical and Provincial Roman Archeology , Art History and Museology and a candidate for historical studies . From 1957 to 1959 he was vice dean of the humanities faculty. In 1967 he retired.

Zoltán Oroszlán dealt primarily with Greek and Roman art and provincial Roman archeology. His research on Greek terracotta sculptures and relief art in the Roman province of Pannonia are well known . This is how he described the bust of Mucius Scaevola , which is in the Lapidarium of the Hungarian National Museum.

He was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and a member of the Archaeological Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Society for Archeology and Art History. From 1959 he was its chairman.

Zoltán Oroszlán was married to the artist Zsófia Tóth from 1932. He died in Budapest in 1971 and was buried in the Farkasréti cemetery.

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Zoltán Oroszlán published around 400 scientific papers.

  • Mitológiai és szimbolikus képtípusok a pannóniai síremlékeken. Élet, Budapest 1918, OCLC 909397682 .
  • Antique terracotta gyüjteményének katalógusa. Ed. Szépművészeti Múzeum. Hornyánszky, Budapest 1930, OCLC 250741551 .
  • Mucius Scaevolát ábrázoló dombormű a Magyar Nemzeti Múzeumban. In: Archaeologiai Értesítő. 46, 1932, pp. 44-53.
  • Athena és Hephaistos ritka mítosza a Székesfehérvári Múzeum egy római kőemlékén. In: Archaeologiai Értesítő. 46, 1932, pp. 54-61.
  • with Aladár Dobrovits: Az egyiptomi gyűjtemény. Vezető. Budapest 1939, OCLC 83138712 .
  • Színész-maszkok és szobrocskák antique terracotta-gyűjteményünkben. In: Az Országos Magyar Szépművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei. 9, 1937–1939 (1940), pp. 215–233, pictures pp. 248–260 ( online, Hungarian ), German short version: pp. 234–247 ( online ).
  • Terracotta studies (= A Magyar Keleti Társaság Kiadványai. 10). Globus, Budapest 1945, OCLC 644060074 .
  • with Aladár Dobrovits: Antik kiállítás. Vezető. Egyetemi Ny, Budapest 1947, OCLC 909143037 .
  • A nyolcvanéves Régészeti Művészettörténeti és Éremtani Társulat. In: Művészettörténeti Értesítő. 9, 1960, pp. 51-57, OCLC 1014827142 .

literature

  • János György Szilágyi : Zoltán Oroszlán (1881–1971). In: Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 23, 1971, pp. 251-253.
  • Imre Jakabffy: The literary activity of Zoltán Oroszlán. In: Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 23, 1971, pp. 253-257.
  • Gyula László: Oroszlán Zoltán sírjánál. In: Régészeti Dolgozatok. 2, 1, 1972, pp. 5-6, doi: 10.17204 / dissarch.1972.5 ( online ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norbert Nagy: A Konstantinápolyi Magyar Tudományos Intézet története (1916–1918) (= Balkán Füzetek. No. 7). Pécs 2010, p. 18. In the work also further information about the work of Zoltán Oroszlán in the Hungarian scientific institute in Constantinople, portrait on p. 39
  2. ↑ Tudta? on the website of the Szépművészeti Múzeum
  3. ↑ Dobrovits Aladár on members.iif.hu
  4. ↑ Antique Gyűjtemény on the website of the Museum of Fine Arts
  5. ↑ Csaba Borsodi, Anna Tüskés: Az Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem - Bölcsészettudományi Karának Története Képekben 1635-2010. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 2010, ISBN 978-963-284-169-4 , p. 198 ( online ).
  6. ↑ a b Eszter Illés: Oroszlán Zoltán on szepmuveszeti.hu, October 25, 2011
  7. ↑ Oroszlán Zoltán on intezet.nori.gov.hu
personal data
SURNAME Oroszlán, Zoltán
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian archaeologist, art historian and museologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1971
Place of death Budapest , Hungary