István Járdányi Paulovics

* Izsa, 28 February 1892 – † Debrecen, 9 December 1952 / archaeologist, university professor ; ; brother of cameraman Mihály Paulovits. Between 1910 and 1914 he studied archaeology, Egyptology, cultural history and Latin philology at the Royal Hungarian University of Science and Technology in Budapest. In 1914 he became an intern and later its keeper at the MNM's Medal and Antiquities Collection. Between 1936 and 1938 he was the director of the Roman period collection. In 1938 and 1940 he was an extraordinary professor at the University of Science and Technology in Pécs, and from 1940 until his death he was a public extraordinary professor of ancient history and archaeology at the University of Science and Technology in Debrecen. His research area was primarily the archaeological excavations of the Pannonian Limes. In 1926, he organized the exhibition of Roman stone monuments at the MNM, which lasted until 1998. In 1937, he created the permanent Roman exhibition, and in 1939, he set up the Szombathely lapidary. He conducted excavations in Dunapentel, Kisárpás, Szőny (in the ancient Brigetio), Nógrádverőce, and Dunabogdány. He began the Roman excavations in Nagytétény. Together with Gyula Géfin, he excavated the late imperial palace complex of Savaria and its interesting mosaics. His son, Pál Járdányi (1920–1966), was a prominent composer. ; ; His main works: ; Hellenistic Egyptian Monuments in Hungary, 1917, ; Dionysian procession (thaitos) on Roman monuments in Hungary (Archaeological Bulletin 48/1935, 49/1936), ; The eastern border of Dacia and the question of the so-called Dacian silver treasures, 1944, ; The Roman origin of the St. Martin Church in Szombathely, the birthplace of St. Martin of Savaria, 1944.