User:Awkwafaba/Stephan Francis De Borhegyi

Stephan Francis De Borhegyi (17 October 1921 — 26 September 1969) was a Hungarian American archaeologist and museologist. He studied Mesoamerican archaeology and was the director of the Milwaukee Public Museum.

Early life
Borhegyi was born in Budapest in 1921. He attended St. Joseph Calasanz college preparatory school in Debrecen. In 1938 he started attending Peter Pazmany University in Budapest. World War II caused a break in his studies, as in 1942 he joined the mounted artillery of the Royal Hungarian Army as a first lieutenant. In 1944 when the Horthy government fell, Borhegyi joined the Hungarian underground. After the war he returned to school and earned his PhD summa cum laude in 1946.

He began working in the Near Eastern and classical archaeology section of the Hungarian National Museum as an assistant. Simultaneously he started teaching at his alma mater in the department of Archaeology and Anthropology.