Wosinsky Mór emlékmű

For a long time we walked up a dirt road lined with spectacular loess walls to the forest rest area. The autumn forest is very beautiful. However, due to the foggy weather, we didn’t see too much of the view.

Mór Wosinsky (or Wosinszky) was born on March 28, 1854 in Tolna, the son of József Wosinsky, a pharmacist of Polish descent who emigrated to Hungary after the defeat of the Polish uprising in 1830, and Katalin Glatz, a resident of Pest. Mór Wosinsky's father intended him to be a priest, and he also provided the necessary upbringing. Little Mór began his school studies at the grammar school in Kalocsa, then from the 6th grade he entered the priesthood. In the autumn of 1871 he was admitted to the philosophical department of the Pécs Priesthood, and on August 15, 1872, on Assumption Day, he was ordained a priest in Pécs. Between 1872 and 1879 he served as chaplain in Gödrén, Baranya County, and then joined the abbey parish with the title of chaplain. In 1881 he was appointed parish priest to Poland, where he came into closer contact with Count Sándor Apponyi and his family, as a result of which his scientific interest, which had existed until then, received a huge boost. In addition to his pastoral duties and the construction of a new school, he devoted almost all of his time to science, especially archeology. Apponyi recognized Wosinsky’s talent and generously supported his research, e.g. cut down the part of the forest where they once came across an old earthen castle. The young scholar-parishman thanked the count for his trust, as after large-scale excavations, when he excavated the Polish prehistoric settlement, in 1886 he was able to display more than 12,000 artifacts (bones, tools, utensils and utensils, etc.). He published the discovery in domestic and foreign newspapers, and during 1889 he gave lectures on the subject in Vienna and Paris. The start of his scientific career also had an impact on his church career. He served as a parish priest and then as an archbishop in increasingly lucrative places, until finally in 1901 he received the honorary abbey of Malocád. By this time he was past all three longer study trips abroad, as in 1885 Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway were the destination of his archeological journey; In 1887 he visited Egypt, Turkey, Greece, and the Holy Land; In 1895 he took part in the Caucasian expedition of Count Jenő Zichy. Mór Wosinsky was a member of the Archaeological Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1889, and a lecturer in the paleontological department of the National Ethnographic Society. From 1890 he became a member of the Munich Society of Anthropology, from 1891 of the Roman Academy of Arcadia, and in 1892 he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1896, within the framework of the Millennium, he founded the Tolna County Archaeological Museum from the finds in Tolna County. The museum, whose collection was previously housed in Apponyi's Polish castle, opened on June 1, 1898. The first director was, of course, Mór Wosinsky, and it is not surprising that the institution itself was later named after him, which is still called the Wosinsky Mór County Museum. Mór Wosinsky died on February 22, 1907 in Szekszárd.