József Aladar Höllrigl

* Nyitra, March 19, 1879 – † Budapest, May 26, 1953 / archaeologist, art historian, ; museologist ; ; His father, Ferenc Höllrigl (1833–1905), was the head of the Nyitra telegraph office. He graduated from the Piarist Gymnasium in Nyitra in 1897. He obtained a teaching diploma from the National Model Drawing School and Drawing Teachers' Training School in 1902. He was a drawing teacher at the Magyaróvár Gymnasium in 1902–1904, and at the Nitra High Gymnasium between 1904–1919. Here, Nándor Várkonyi was also his student. He founded the Nyitra Castle County Museum. After the change of empire, he was a colleague of the MNM's antiquities archive between 1919–1937. As an archaeologist, he carried out excavations in Baracspuszta, Fülöpszállás, Szob, and Zagyvarékas. In 1932–1933, he excavated the tombs of the Csaholyi and Melith families in the Reformed Church of Csenger. In 1937–1939, he was the director of the Museum of Applied Arts. His research on the history of Hungarian ceramics and glass art in the Middle Ages, as well as the history of costume, is of lasting and instructive value. He published his art history papers in Magyar Művészet, and his archaeological writings in Archaeologiai Értesítő. ; ; His main works: ; Régi magyar rűkő, 1938 (in English: 1939), ; Magyar és törökös viseletformák a 16–17th century (In: Magyar művédéstörténet III.), 1940.