Bernat L. Kumorovitz

* Ötösbánya, October 5, 1900 – † Budapest, February 22, 1992 / Premontrean monk, historian, archivist, university professor, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1945) ; ; He completed his secondary schooling in Levoča, then entered the Premontrean order in Jászó in 1918. He studied theology between 1919–1923, and was ordained a priest in 1923. In 1923–1926, he studied history and geography at the Pázmány Péter University in Budapest, earning a teaching degree in 1927 and a doctorate in humanities in 1928. Between 1926 and 1948, he taught full-time at the Premontrean Gymnasium in Gödöllő, but in the meantime he went on study trips to Vienna and then to Italy, lectured at the Budapest University of Science and Technology, and from 1942 also at the Budapest Teacher Training College. In 1948, the Gödöllő Gymnasium was closed, and he also lost his job at the teacher training college. In 1950, the Premontrean order was dissolved, and in 1951 he had to leave the university, where he lectured on diplomas and seals. Until 1957, he made a living from odd jobs: he prepared diploma extracts and translated the texts of old documents. In 1957, he was partially rehabilitated and appointed as a research associate in the medieval department of the Budapest History Museum. Between 1962 and 1972, he directed the work of the department as a senior scientific fellow, and after 1975, he assisted the historical research in the museum as a scientific advisor. From 1959, he was able to teach at the university again, teaching at the Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences at ELTE, and between 1963 and 1981 as a c. university professor. In 1989, he was able to fully rehabilitate himself and restore his academic membership. His main research areas were seal studies, charter studies, heraldry and flag studies. During his diplomatic (charter studies) work, he processed the charter publishing activities of several authoritative places and the Premontre convent of Lelesz, and in addition, he published several charter collections (regeszta) covering the 11th–15th centuries. Through his archival research, he studied in depth the official writing of medieval Hungary and the domestic history of the Premontrean order. He was elected a full member of the Academy of St. Stephen in 1941, became a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1945, and a full member in 1990. ; ; His main works: ; The history of Hungarian sphragistics, 1938, ; The history of the use of Hungarian seals in the Middle Ages, ; 1944 (expanded edition: 1993), ; Veszprémi regeszták 1301–1387 (editor), 1953, ; Budapest history of the documentary monuments I–III. (editor), 1987–1988.