Floris Ferenc Romer

* Bratislava, April 12, 1815 – † Nagyvárad, March 18, 1889 / art historian, ; archaeologist, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1871) ; ; Flóris is his monastic name. He began his school studies in his hometown, studying Slovak in Trenčín and Hungarian in Tata. In 1830 he entered the Benedictine Order and became a doctor of humanities. He studied with Arnold Ipolyi (Ipolykeszi) in the Bakonybé monastery. In 1838 he contributed to the publication of the Pisky Codex. From 1839 he taught Hungarian and Latin at the Győr high school, and later natural history. From 1842 he led the natural science training of Benedictine students at the Győr liberal arts course. From 1845 he was a natural history teacher at the upper school in Bratislava. One of his well-known students was the son of Palatine József. At that time, he turned the Bratislava grove into a botanical garden at his own expense and had a lightning rod installed on the Coronation Church. During the War of Independence, he achieved the rank of captain. Based on one of his agitating articles, which was published in the Pressburger Zeitung on November 30, 1848, he was sentenced to death in November 1849, then to 8 years in prison, of which he spent almost six years in the Josephstadt prison. He was released in 1854, and then taught and was an educator in several places (Kőszeg, Győr). During this time, he studied the geological and natural history of the Bakony Mountains and its surroundings, as well as its archaeological and historical monuments. In 1861 he moved to Pest, separated from the Benedictine order, first became the manuscript keeper of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, from 1862 a high school principal, and in 1868 a professor of archaeology at the university. From 1869 he was the keeper of the antiquities archive of the Hungarian National Museum. In 1877 he was appointed a canon of Oradea. Between 1861 and 1868 he edited the Győri Történeti és Régészeti Füzeteks together with Károly Ráth. Between 1868 and 1872 he edited the Archaeological Bulletin, and between 1864 and 1873 he edited the Archaeological Bulletin. It was his merit that the 8th International Congress of Paleoarchaeologists and Anthropologists was held in Budapest in 1876. His unpublished multi-volume diary, with his own drawings, is a very valuable source for Hungarian archaeology, art history and monument protection. He was one of the founders and an outstanding practitioner of Hungarian antiquities. He was a founding member of the Hungarian Historical Society. It was largely due to his efforts that regular Roman archaeological excavations began in Hungary. ; ; His main works: ; The archaeological monuments of Bratislava, 1856, ; The Bakony, 1860, ; A guide to art archaeology with special reference to Hungary, 1866, ; Decorative sheets from the four Corvin Codexes kept in the Roman library, 1871, ; The Roman inscriptions of the Hungarian National Museum, 1873, ; Old Pest, 1873, ; Old wall paintings in Hungary, 1874, ; Résultats généreaux du mouvement archéologique en Hongrie, 1878