István Schönwiesner

* Prešov, 15 December 1738 – † Nagyvárad, 26 September 1818 / archaeologist, university professor, canon of Nagyvárad ; ; He joined the Jesuit order in 1756, then completed his theology in Nagyszombat and became prefect of the Teresianum in Vienna. When the Jesuit order was dissolved in 1773, he studied philosophy and in 1777 became a second-year student at the Buda University Library. From 1780 he taught archaeology at the university, and in 1794 he was appointed director of the university library. From 1802 he was a canon of Nagyvárad. He laid the foundations of scientific archaeology in Hungary with his works written in Latin and German. His Hungarian coin and money catalogues are valuable sources. He was the first to conduct scientific archaeological excavations in Hungary, and during this he discovered the remains of Aquincum and excavated the ruins of Savaria in Szombathely. ; ; His main works: ; De ruderibus Laconici Caldariique Romani..., 1778, ; Commentarius geographicus In Romanorum iter per Pannoniae..., 1780, ; Antiquitatum et historiae Sabariensis..., 1791, ; Notitia Hungaricae rei numariae..., 1801, ; Catalogus numorum Hungariae ac Transilvaniae Instituti Nationali Széchenyiani I–III., 1810.