Antaeus - Communicationes ex Instituto Archaeologico Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 24/1997-1998 [antikvár]

László Barkóczi, sketch by László Vértes, c. 1955 THE BIOGRAPHY OF LÁSZLÓ BARKÓCZIi Dr. László Barkóczi was born in Berettyóújfalu on 20 May 1919. In 1938 he received Ms degree (maturity exam) at Ferenc József Royal Catholic Secondary School in Budapest's 2nd district. From 1938^4 he studied at the Faculty of Arts of Péter Pázmány University of Arts and Sciences. His specialities were Archaeology of the Hungarian Land, Classical Archaeology and Ancient Christian Archaeology In 1941 he served as aid to Professor András Alföldi. In 1942 he graduated and became an assistant of Professor Alföldi, as well as an unpaid assistant at the Hungarian National Museum. He carried out his first excavations (together with Aladár Radnóti) in Szőny and in Porolissum (Moigrad, now Romania), in 1939^2. In 1944 he received his Ph. D. degree for his dissertation on Brigetio. The dissertation surveys the Roman city's stone monuments in general and its inscriptions in particular. He completed his military service (from 1944) in World War II, became prisoner of war in Strasbourg, France and returned to Hungary in 1946. The same year he started regular work at the Hungarian National Museum. At the beginning, he concentrated on the research of the Roman limes. He made excavations at Dunapentele (Intercisa) in 1949-50 and excavated the Roman camp at Adony and several early Roman tumuli at Pusztaszabolcs in 1951. He invited Éva Bonis to join him at the digs and to publish the results of his findings in Pusztaszabolcs. In 1951 he also started a series of excavations at Fenékpuszta (Valcum), continued research in Brigetio, and carried out several rescue digs. ^ compiled by Andrea Vaday