Albert Gárdonyi (Grün)

* Prešov, December 24, 1874 – / Budapest, October 23, 1946 / historian, chief archivist ; ; He completed his secondary school studies in Miskolc, where his father was a railway official. After graduating, he prepared to become a priest, so he studied theology at the University of Vienna. After theology became less and less appealing to him, in 1897 he transferred to the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Budapest, where he obtained a law degree in 1901. In addition to legal lectures, he also studied dissertation and history lectures and was awarded a doctorate in these subjects in 1907. Between 1899 and 1904, he was an official of the archives of the Hungarian National Museum. Already in these years he conducted more in-depth documentary research, reporting on his results in the periodicals of the time (Turul, Magyar Könyvszemle, Századok, Ethnographiai és Numizmatikai Közlöny). From 1907 he worked as a librarian, from 1911 he was the archivist of the Council of the Capital, and from 1914 to 1935 he was its chief archivist. During his archival research on the past of the Vérmező in Buda, in 1913 he found the map sketch, ; based on which the anthropologist Lajos Bartucz managed to uncover the remains of Ignác Martinovics and his executed companions. In 1913 he was qualified as a private university teacher, and in 1929 he became a full professor at the University of Budapest. ; ; His main works: ; Hungarian book printing and book trade in the XVIII. szájadbán, 1917, ; Bezerédj István I-II. (with István Bodnár), 1918–1920, ; The history of the Hungarian Jacobins (In: The memory of the Hungarian Jacobins), 1919, ; Fifty years of the history of the capital of Budapest, 1873–1923, 1925, ; The history of historical auxiliary sciences, 1926, ; Old Pest booksellers, 1930.