Maria Radnoti-Alföldi (6 June 1926 – 7 May 2022)[1] was a Hungarian-German archaeologist and numismatist specialising in the Roman period.
[2] She completed high school in 1944 and then enrolled in the philosophy department at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest where she studied until 1949.
She was forced to leave this work in 1957 when after the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Radnoti-Alföldi and her husband fled via Vienna to Bavaria.
Radnoti-Alföld then became a researcher on the Fundmünzen der Römischen Zeit in Deutschland ('Roman-period Coin Finds in Germany') project of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft from 1957 to 1962.
In the summer of 1961, she received her Habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in the then-new subject of ancient numismatics.