Joseph Konyöki, Ellenbogen

* Mocsa, 19 February 1829 – † Bratislava, 1 March 1900 / archaeologist, restorer, teacher ; ; After the death of his father, he lived with his grandmother in Bratislava from 1833. He completed his secondary school studies there, then from 1846 he attended the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. From 1849 he served in the Austrian army in Italy for four and a half years, first as a cadet and then as an officer, and also participated in the occupation of Venice. He resigned his lieutenant's rank in 1853. He then spent 15 months in Florence as a tutor to Gr. Tolomei. Here he continued his painting studies that he had begun in Venice and Padua and became a student of the Florentine painter Giovanni Baptista Gori. He stayed in Palermo and Messina for a longer period, but his family circumstances called him home. Between 1855 and 1861, he taught at the private educational institution of Mrs. Du Fodon Didier in Nagyszombat. After 1861, he became a drawing teacher at the Bratislava State High School of Realism and the keeper of the city museum, as well as a lecturer at the Bratislava County Archaeological Society. From 1875, he was a private teacher of antiquities at the Bratislava Academy. He Hungarianized his original name (Ellenbogen) in 1869. He retired in 1897. He was a corresponding member of the National Committee for Monuments, a conservator of the Vienna Central Committee for Monuments, a member of the board of directors of the Hungarian National Museum of Applied Arts, and was elected a corresponding member of the International Congress of Prehistory and Anthropology in Lisbon in 1880. On government commission, he restored numerous historic buildings and artifacts and drew many churches and castles. His collection of 26 art sheets, on which he describes the missals and incunabula drawings of the library of the Prince-Primate of Esztergom and the Bratislava chapter, is very valuable. He won praise for his drawings at the 1862 London World Exhibition, a certificate of merit at the 1873 Vienna Exhibition, and a bronze medal at the 1885 Budapest National Exhibition. ; ; His main works: ; Plane figures in geometric and decorative freehand drawings as a preparation for freehand drawings, 1864, ; Zur Erinnerung an die feierliche Consecration des neue erectiteten Hochaltars im restaurirten Sanctuarium des Krönungs-Domes zu Pressburg, 1867, ; Kleiner Wegweiser Pressburgs und seiner Umgebung, mit einer Karte von Pressburg, 1873, ; The use of colors in women's needlework, 1875, ; A brief description of the Bratislava City Antiquities Museum, 1877, ; The defensive system of Hungary's western border, 1885, ; The castle of Trenčín, 1887, ; Medieval castles with special reference to Hungary (edited for the press by: Géza Nagy), 1905.