András Masát
András Masát (born May 8, 1947 in Niederpöcking ) is a literary scholar and university professor; from 2008 to 2017 he was rector of the German-speaking Andrássy University in Budapest .
Life
András Masát studied German and Hungarian at the University of Sciences in Szeged (JATE). Between 1970 and 1980 he was first assistant, then adjunct at JATE, from 1980 he taught at the chair for German and Romance studies at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. In 1983 he continued his work at the Chair of Scandinavian Studies. Between 1989 and 1991 he was Vice Dean of the Education and Foreign Affairs Department, and from 1991 to 1994 Vice Rector of the University. Since 1997 he has been head of the Chair for Scandinavian Languages and Literature, where he teaches Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Based on his dissertation, he was nominated by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) as a candidate in literary studies. Since 1982 he has been giving guest lectures at numerous universities across Europe. He is a member of numerous organizations: the National Scandinavian Association (IASS 1980–), the National German Association (IVG 1983–), where he is a member of the Board of Directors, and the Modern Philological Society, where he is chairman of the Northern European Department (1987– ). He is both co-founder and editor of Scandinavian Hefts and of the UK-published magazine called Scandinavian . He is a member of the editing committee of the journal Philological Bulletin.
Masát has also taken on visiting professorships for modern Scandinavian literature in Vienna and Berlin . Between 1999 and 2007 he was director of the Collegium Hungaricum in Berlin. In 2008 he was elected rector of the Andrássy University in Budapest and at the same time appointed professor for applied cultural studies. In 2014 he was elected Rector for his third term. His main research interests lie in the area of cultural mediation in Central and Eastern Europe, foreign cultural policy, cultural memory and nation building (staging of the national, mobilization strategies in Scandinavia).
On May 26, 2014, he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his services to German-Hungarian science and education policy .
András Masát is married to Dagmar Richter and has two children. He lives in Szentendre near Budapest .
Fonts
- Man and the world in Tarjei Vesaas' prose poem. Inaugural dissertation. Greifswald 1974.
- From genre picture to peasant story. Corresponding forms of short epics in Norwegian “folk literature” around the middle of the 19th century. Budapest contributions to German studies. Series of publications by the German Institute of Loránd Eötvös University, No. 29. Budapest 1996.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of András Masát ( Memento of the original of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 23, 2014
- ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for András Masát ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 23, 2014
- ↑ Publications by András Masát ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file), accessed June 23, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Masát, András |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Hungarian literary scholar, rector of the Andrássy University in Budapest |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niederpöcking |