Zsolt Visy

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Zsolt Visy (born May 23, 1944 in Szeged , Csongrád County , Hungary ) is a Hungarian provincial Roman archaeologist . From 1998 to 2000 he was Deputy State Secretary in the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage, Budapest .

Life

Visy attended the Radnóti-Miklós-Gymnasium in his hometown Szeged and began his studies in 1962 at the Philosophical Faculty of the Loránd Eötvös University (ELTE) in Budapest. In 1967 Visy completed his diploma in archeology-Latin there and received his doctorate in 1977 with a thesis on the Danube provinces during the Domitian era ( university doctorate ). In 1995 he became a candidate for historical studies (történelemtudomány kandidátusa) after his dissertation on typological and historical studies of the Roman carriage industry . With his subsequent work on the Pannonian Limes in Hungary, he received his habilitation in 1998 at the ELTE and in 2002 his doctorate as a historian of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA).

Visy worked from 1967 to 1983 as a senior museum scientist at the Intercisa Museum in Dunaújváros and has been employed at the University of Pécs since 1984 , initially as a university lecturer (assistant professor) and from 1995 to 1998 as an associate professor, and from 1996 to 1998 he was also the dean of his university . From 1998 to 2000 he held a political office as Deputy State Secretary in the Hungarian Ministry of National Cultural Heritage. During this time he was involved in the complex negotiations on reconciliation and the establishment of the Austrian Reconciliation Fund. Among other things, this fund supports the Hungarian slave laborers who were deported to Austria during the Nazi dictatorship. In 2003 Visy returned to the University of Pécs and has since worked there at the Chair of Ancient History and Archeology as head of the archaeological seminar. In 2008, he set up a postgraduate course in cultural heritage management at the University of Pécs.

Zsolt Visy is one of the most internationally renowned experts in the field of Pannonian Limes exploration . In addition, he focused on the areas of Roman bathing culture, Romanization, the Dacians, aerial archeology and monument protection.

Memberships

Among other things, he has been a member of the Hungarian Society for Archeology and Art History (Magyar Régészeti és Művészettörténeti Társaság) since 1963, member of the Society of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland , Chairman of the Hungarian World Heritage Committee (1998-2000), corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (since 2002) , full member of the Society of Antiquaries of London (since 2006), founding member and president of the Hungarian Limes Commission (since 2008), member of the Association for the Promotion of Christian Archeology in Austria, Vice President of the International Council for the Preservation of Monuments (ICOMOS) and President of the Committee of Experts on Culture of the Hungarian UNESCO Commission (since 2012). In 1963 he became a member of the Hungarian Society for Classical Studies (Ókortudományi Társaság), where he was deputy chairman from 1997 to 2003 and general secretary from 2003 to 2006. Visy is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI).

Excavations (selection)

Visy has also been involved in national and international excavations.

  • 1967–1981: Limes Fort Intercisa (Dunapentele, Hungary)
  • 1981–1983: Roman thermal baths Weißenburg (Germany)
  • 1972; 1987–1990: Limes Fort Lussonium , ( Dunakömlőd , Hungary)
  • 1996–1998: Roman Villa Babarc (Hungary)
  • 2001–2002: Roman baths and ruins as well as the monastery in Zülpich (Germany)
  • 2005–2006: early Christian cemetery of Pécs (Hungary)

Awards

In 2011 Visy was appointed Officer of the Hungarian Order of Merit .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Intercisa. Dunaújváros in Roman times. Corvina Verlag, Budapest 1977. ISBN 3876807530
  • Thermae maiores Biriciana. Weißenburg in Bavaria. Excavation - conservation - restoration. Budapest 1984.
  • The great thermal baths of Weißenburg i. Bay. Large Exhibition Guide 5, Prehistoric State Collection, Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Munich, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1992
  • The carriage representations of the Pannonian tombstones . JPTE TK publishing house, Pécs 1997, ISBN 9636414564
  • The ripa Pannonica in Hungary . Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 2003. ISBN 9630579804 (in English)
  • (Ed.): Limes XIX. Proceedings of the XIXth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies held in Pécs, Hungary, September 2003 . University of Pécs, Pécs 2005, ISBN 963-642-053-X .
  • with Ferenc Fazekas, Thomas S. Burns, Helmut Bender (eds.): The Roman settlement near Babarc, Baranya County, Hungary. The prospecting work in 1988-1991 and the excavations in 1996-1999. Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden 2007. ISBN 978-3-89646-179-7 .
  • with Zsolt Mráv (ed.): A Seuso-kincs és Pannónia. Magyarországi tanulmányok a Seuso-kincsről / The Sevso treasure and Pannonia: scientific contributions to the Sevso treasure from Hungary. Vol. 1, Pécs 2012, ISBN 978-963-89394-4-9 .

Essays

  • Information on the history of the Hungarian lowlands in the Augustan era. In: Recent results of the prehistory and early history research of the Central Danube Plain. Archaeological Conference, Szeged, 1969 . Szeged 1971.
  • Intercisa - a Roman border fort on the Pannonian Limes . In: Das Altertum 24, 1978, pp. 106–111.
  • The construction history of the Intercisa auxiliary fort. (with Barnabás Lőrincz ). In: Roman Frontier Studies 1979. Papers presented to the 12th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies. Oxford 1980. pp. 681-701.
  • To supplement and date new military diplomas from Upper Moesia. (with Barnabás Lörincz). In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 42, 1981, pp. 273-278.
  • Római fürdő és helyreállítása Weißenburgban. In: Műemlékvédelem 27, 1983, pp. 201-213. * A Weißenburgban föltárt római fürdő restaurálásának tapasztalatai. In: Múzeumi Műtárgyvédelem 13, 1984, pp. 47-74. (Hungarian)
  • Roman thermal baths of Weißenburg in Bavaria. In: Preserved History? Ancient buildings and their preservation. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1985. ISBN 3-8062-0450-0 . Pp. 153-163
  • The crypto-topographical enumeration of troops in the auxiliary diplomas of Pannonia. In: Army and Integration Policy. The Roman military diplomas as a historical source. Passau historical research, 2. Böhlau Verlag Cologne-Vienna 1986. ISBN 3-412-06686-9 . Pp. 482-517.
  • Comments on a new Civitas document from the year 97 (with Barnabás Lörincz). In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 63, 1986, pp. 241–249.
  • New research in the auxiliary fort of Intercisa. (with Barnabás Lörincz and Klára Szabó). In: Studies on the military borders of Rome III. Lectures at the 13th International Limes Congress, Aalen 1983. Konrad Theiss Verlag. Stuttgart 1986. ISBN 3806207763 . Pp. 362-368.
  • The Pannonian Limes in Hungary . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3806204888
  • New research in the auxiliary fort of Intercisa . In: Studies on the military borders of Rome III . 13th International Limes Congress Aalen 1983. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0776-3 . Pp. 362-368.
  • The auxiliaries of the Pannonia Superior province under Trajan. (with Barnabás Lörincz). In: ActaArchHung 39, 1987, pp. 337-345.
  • Instrumenta inscripta latina. Roman life as reflected in the small inscriptions. Exhibition catalog (with Manfred Hainzmann and others). Pécs 1991, ISBN 9636412820
  • Rural settlement and agriculture in Lower Pannonia. In: Rural Settlement and Agriculture in the Rhine-Danube Provinces of the Roman Empire. Lectures at an international colloquium from 16. – 21. April 1991 in Passau . Publishing house Marie Leidorf. Rahden 1994. ISBN 3924734194 . P. 143ff
  • Iron express car. In: The Roman temple treasure of Weißenburg in Bavaria. Prehistoric State Collection Munich. Publishing house Philipp von Zabern. Mainz 1993. ISBN 3805315139 . P. 128
  • Roman and Byzantine high-speed scales from Turkey . In: Files of the 10th International Conference on Antique Bronzes, Baden-Württemberg State Monument Authority. Konrad Theiss publishing house. Stuttgart 1994. ISBN 3806210764 . P. 435
  • Opportunities for archaeological monument preservation in Hungary. In: Aspects of European soil conservation. Rhenish Office for Ground Monument Preservation. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1994. ISBN 3792714361
  • Remarks on the dislocation of the auxiliary troops from Raetia. In: Roman inscriptions: New finds, new readings and new interpretations. Festschrift for Hans Lieb on his 65th birthday presented by his friends and colleagues. Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel 1995. ISBN 372450893X . P. 133.
  • On the Roman history of Pannonia / historical overview . In: From Augustus to Attila, life on the Hungarian Danube Limes . Series of writings from the Limes Museum in Aalen . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8062-1541-3
  • Hungarian know-how for Roman ruins in Bavaria. In: Archeology and Marketing. Contributions to the 3rd Cambodunum Symposium; October 9-10, 1998 . Kempten 2001, ISBN 3880190291 . Pp. 106-109.
  • Bavaria and Hungary. A thousand years of relationships. In: Bavaria - Hungary. A thousand years. Lectures of the conference Bavaria and Hungary in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period in Passau, October 15-18, 2000 for the Bavarian State Exhibition 2001. Pustet-Verlag Regensburg 2001. ISBN 3-7917-1753-7
  • Zuelpich-Mühlenberg. Roman thermal baths and Benedictine provostry. Excavations 2001 . In: Archeology in the Rhineland 2001 . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002. ISBN 3-8062-1751-3 . Pp. 57-59.
  • On the question of ancient knowledge of the Danube and the Hercynia silva. In: Ad fontes! - Festschrift for Gerhard Dobesch on his 65th birthday. Phoibos Publishing House. Vienna 2004. ISBN 978-3-200-00193-0
  • Recent studies of auxiliary troops of Roman auxiliary diplomas . In: Military Diplomas. The research contributions to the Bern Talks in 2004. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 3-515-09144-0 . Pp. 247-265
  • The border in Hungary. In: Limits of the Roman Empire . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-3429-X . P. 147ff.
  • The water supply and disposal in Intercisa. In: Dacia Felix. Studia Michaeli Barbulescu oblate. Cluj 2007. pp. 575-584.
  • Car and car parts. In: Ernst Künzl (Hrsg.): The Alemanni booty from the Rhine near Neupotz: Plundering goods from Roman Gaul , 2nd edition, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum. Mainz 2009, ISBN 3884671227 .
  • Archaeological research on the eastern border of Dacia superior. In: Szilvia Bíró (Ed.): Studia officina ... Studia in honorem Dénes Gabler. Mursella, Győr 2009. pp. 587ff.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Martin Eichtinger: The Reconciliation Fund . Austria's benefits to former slave and forced laborers of the Nazi regime. In: Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Politik, vol. 2000, ISBN 3-486-56590-7 , p. 235.
  2. ^ Gerhard Dobesch: Selected writings, volume 1. Greeks and Romans. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna Cologne Weimar 2001, ISBN 3-412-12899-6 . Appendix: Tabula subscriptorum S. IX.
personal data
SURNAME Visy, Zsolt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian provincial Roman archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Szeged