Szatmári Gizella: Signs of Remembrance - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

excavations in Székesfehérvár, Kalocsa and at the Citadel of Visegrád. All that proved insufficient grounds for him to be appointed Director and Gallery- Guardian of the National Museum in 1865, despite the fact that he promised professionally to catalogue and systematize the museum's collections.

In 1872, when the monument protection of Hungary received its institutional framework, he was allowed to work as senior clerk for the institution, which position he continued to fill with the National Committee for Historic Monuments.

His seminal works in architectural history include The Early Chriitian, Romaneique and Tramitional Monuments 0ft Hungarian Architecture, 1876, and Hungary's Monuments in the Ogival Style, 1880. To him goes credit for the compilation of a register for Hungary's historical monuments, the data for which was supplied by a large network of volunteers, and it was also Henszl- mann who prepared the Monuments Bill for parliamentary debate in 1879.

Döbrentei, the Godfather at the Baptism of the Buda Hills

On 19 June 1847, a curious meeting was held on Tündérhegy (Fairy Hill) for burghers wishing to be informed of the latest decree made by the municipal council of the King’s Free City of Buda.

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