Ortvay Tivadar, Orthmayer

* Németciklova, November 19, 1843 – † Budapest, July 8, 1916 / Roman Catholic priest, historian, geographer, archaeologist, academic teacher, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1905) ; ; He completed his secondary school and theological studies in Timisoara. First, he was a pastor in several places (Kikinda, Németoravica, Németciklova, Fehértemplom), then a teacher at the Lugosi gymnasium. In the meantime, he also obtained a university private teacher qualification. From 1873, he was an assistant keeper of the MNM antiquities archive, in 1875 he was a teacher of Hungarian and history at the Bratislava Law Academy, in 1892 he became a papal chamberlain, and in 1900 he became abbot of Csanád. In parallel, he was the director of the Orsolyte teacher training school in Bratislava between 1894–1900. As a historian, he thoroughly examined the historical hydrography and medieval ecclesiastical geography of the Carpathian Basin with an original, novel approach, based on field surveys and archival research. He did significant work in the historical and natural history description of the counties of Bratislava and Timiş, and also monographically processed the life of Louis II.'s wife and widow, Maria of Habsburg. During his archaeological research, in addition to the typology of prehistoric stone tools, he attempted to map the ancient Pannonian road network and to locate the Margum in Moesia and the Tibiscum in Dacia. During the fieldwork that served as the background to his research, he made numerous topographical surveys and map sketches of the hydrography and archaeological sites of Hungary. He also wrote political and public law journalism, commemorative speeches, travel reports and hunting articles. Between 1871 and 1874 he edited the journal Historical Database of the Csanád Diocese, in 1875–1876 he was the assistant editor of the Archaeological Bulletin, and in 1901–1906 he was the co-editor of the Bulletin of the Pozsonyi Natural Sciences and Medical Association. He wrote nearly a hundred historical, archaeological and geographical articles for the Universal Hungarian Encyclopedia. His most significant work is the four-volume monograph on the history of Pozsony. He was laid to rest in the András Cemetery in Pozsony next to his mother. ; ; His main works: ; The geographical grouping of the Hungarian Danube Islands and the factors of their formation, 1880, ; The old hydrography of Hungary until the end of the 13th century, I – II., 1882, ; One Hundred Years of the Life of a Hungarian College: On the Occasion of the Existence of the Royal Academy of Bratislava from 1784 to 1884, 1884, ; Comparative Studies on the Origin and Antiquity of Hungarian and Northern European Prehistoric Stone Tools I – II., 1885, ; Ecclesiastical Land Survey of Hungary at the Beginning of the 14th Century I – III., 1891–1892, ; History of the City of Bratislava I – IV., 1892–1913, ; History of the County of Timişoara and the City of Timişoara I–IV., 1896–1914, ; Streets and Squares of the City of Bratislava, 1905, Mary, Wife of King Louis II of Hungary, 1914.