Imre Henszlmann

* Košice, 13 October 1813 – † Budapest, 5 December 1888 / physician, art historian, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; ; He attended school in Prešov and Bratislava. He learned Hungarian in Prešov, where the Hungarian Language Society was founded in 1827 under the presidency of Mihály Greguss. He enrolled in medical schools in Pest and Vienna, and finally obtained a doctorate in Padua. However, his attention was much more occupied by fine arts and archaeology, and he studied architecture in particular in great depth in Western Europe and Hungary. The then director of the Vienna Mint, the medal sculptor and art collector József Dániel Böhm (1794–1865), born in Székesfehérvár, also played a role in this, introducing him to these sciences. In Leipzig, in 1843–1844, he published a quarterly journal in German (Vierteljahrschrift aus und für Ungarn), which he edited in the spirit of the Hungarian opposition, and of which seven volumes were published. As early as 1841, he became a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He carried out powerful propaganda in favor of the protection of Hungarian monuments, and wrote his art history studies one after another. In 1848, he served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after the fall he was imprisoned by the Austrians for a while, and after his release, in 1850, he left for England. There he caused a great sensation with his studies. In Paris, with the support of Napoleon III, his work Théorie des proportions appliqués dans l’ architecture was published. Upon his return home, the scientist, who was already famous in Europe, led one successful excavation after another. He also initiated the excavations in Székesfehérvár and Kalocsa. In 1862, together with archaeologist Ferenc Kubinyi (Kóvár) and priest and art historian Arnold Ipolyi (®Ipolykeszi), he traveled to Constantinople, where they managed to find quite a few pieces from the Corvina Library. From 1873, he was the head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Budapest, and in that year he also became a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. ; His main works: ; Parallel between ancient and modern artistic views and educations, 1841, ; Old German style churches of the city of Kassa, 1846 (this was the first Hungarian art history monograph), ; The Romanesque church of Kisbényi, 1862, ; Guide to archaeological works I-II., 1866, ; Medieval antiquities of Pécs I-II., 1869–1872, ; A brief description of the Old Christian, Romanesque, and transitional style monuments of Hungary, 1876; Antiquities of Levoča, 1878; Monuments of pointed arches in Hungary, 1880.