Emília Zathureczky

Emilia Zathureczky (Olasztelek, 21 October 1823 – Imecsfalva, 5 November 1905) was a Hungarian artifact collector, the founder of the Székely National Museum and helper of revolutionary fighters.

Life and work Emilia was born to István Zathureczky Zaturcsai (1795–1875) and Juliánna Tasnádi Nagy (1799–1878) who was a relative of the linguist-historian Gyula Nagy Tasnádi. Emilia was an educated child who learned Latin. From an early age, she enjoyed books, antiques, medals, and Stone Age, Bronze Age and other items she found while collecting. According to the Székely National Museum:She donated to the Society of Fine Arts (Szekler ornaments, embroideries, other objects), she was the first collector of the Transylvanian Carpathian Association's Museum of Landscape and Ethnography, she contributed the bulk of the material from Szeklerland (in 1901, 300 of the 1,600 objects in the museum). She collected gentleman's embroideries, the three-tiered embroideries with scratched ornaments, bowls with human, animal and floral decorations, various thread-count and free-form embroideries; she concentrates on the beautifully decorated, representative pieces.

Zathureczky died in 1905 and is buried in the Kézdivásárhely cemetery (now part of Romania).

Legacy Zathureczky founded or supported several institutions:

Beneficial Women's Association of Sfântu Gheorghe Háromszék county poorhouse Sepsiszentgyörgy women's industrial school Háromszék County Erzsébet orphanage Stefánia Asylum Rudolf Hospital

Family In 1841, Emilia married a church caretaker János Cserey (1817–1875) and was widowed in 1875. They had six children: Balázs (1844–1869), Gizella (1848–1850), István (1849–1860), Ákos (1856–1905) member of the county committee, Gyula (1857–1883) and Mihály (1865–1872).

Emilia's younger brother, Károly Zathureczky (1832–1889), compiled a "serious medal collection and donated it to the Cluj Museum Association."