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Régészet - Gróf Péter: Soproni Sándor, Visegrád római korának kutatója

STUDIACOMITATENSIA 35.- A FERENCZY MÚZEUMI CENTRUM ÉVKÖNYVE

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Péter Gróf

SÁNDOR SOPRONI, RESEARCHER OF THE ROMAN ERA OF VISEGRÁD

Besides the diverse professional profiles of a classical archaeologist, an epigraphist, and a museologist, Sándor Soproni (1926-1995) earned his most indefeasible merits, as well as national and international academic recognition with his research of the Roman limes of the Danube Bend. His early career was already connected to the Danube Bend, more closely, to his native town, Szentendre. In 1951, at the age of 25, he took office as the director of the Museum of Szentendre.

From 1951 until his death, Soproni was faithfully and devotedly committed to researching the section of the Roman border defence system between Esztergom (Solva) and Szentendre (Ulcisia). Within the research of this section, he is renowned for the extensive exploration of a fortification within Visegrád (Sibrik hill), the complete excavation of two watchtowers (Kőbánya, Várkert), the sondage survey of watchtower II at Szent- györgypuszta, and for the localization of the Roman objects from the archaeological sites at Gizellamajor, the port of Nagymaros, Kisvillám and Szentgyörgypuszta I.

Sándor Soproni initiated the research of the history of Visegrád in the Roman age. By making his results public at national and international conferences, as well as in Hungarian and foreign publications, he brought the attention of scholars and of the interested public to the significance of the Danube Bend limes. On the account of the XIth International Limes Congress, organized in 1976 in Hungary, he presented the finds and objects of his excavations of 25 years at a temporary exhibition entitled „Roman Fortification System in the Danube Bend” in the Solomon Tower of the King Matthias Museum in Visegrád.

His Visegrád related activities started with the excavation of the fortification at Sibrik in 1951. The research of the late Roman castrum was important not only from the perspective of the Roman era history of the Danube Bend, but also because it initiated the exploration of the county seat and the comes palace of Visegrád that were founded by Saint Stephen.

The oeuvre and memory of Sándor Soproni are part of the past and the present of the Museum of Visegrád, from scholarly and human points of view alike. From many perspectives, the research of the Roman vestiges of Visegrád is based on Soprani’s results to this day. The excavation works, sondages, and site localizations he initiated, give us tasks for the future.

(translated by Agnes Drosztmér)

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