Denis Sinor

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Denis (Dénes) Sinor (born April 17, 1916 in Cluj-Napoca , then Hungary ; † January 12, 2011 in Bloomington, Indiana ) was an American Asian scholar .

Origin and education

Sinor grew up in Hungary and Switzerland . As a student at the University of Budapest , he received several grants and graduated in 1938 with a thesis in Altaic Studies . From 1939 to 1948 he lived in France , initially as a teacher of Hungarian at the École des langues orientales in Paris . Classified as politically unreliable, he moved to Vichy France in 1942 , became a member of the Resistance , served in the French occupation zone of Germany and was demobilized in November 1945.

academic career

From 1948 to 1962 he conducted research at the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge in the UK . In 1962 he moved to Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana . From 1963 to 1988 he headed the department for Ural and Altai studies he founded. Until 1981 he headed the Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies , which he founded in 1967 and which was renamed the Denis Sinor Institute for Inner Asian Studies in 2006 in his honor . From 1963 to 1988 he was director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center.

Sinor was a member of several academies and received numerous honors. In his honor awarded the British Royal Asiatic Society , the Denis Sinor Medal for Inner Asian Studies. In 2005 he received an honorary professorship at the Oriental Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow .

Sinor wrote 8 books and edited 13, wrote more than 160 essays in Hungarian, French, English and German, published more than 125 reviews, and wrote articles for several encyclopedias, including the Encyclopædia Britannica . He was the editor of the Journal of Asian History (since 1967), the Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series (over 150 volumes), and the Indiana University Oriental Series .

Festschriften and bibliography

  • Walther Heissig , John R. Krueger, Felix J. Oinas, Edmond Schütz (eds.): Tractata Altaica. Denis Sinor, sexagenario optime de rebus altaicis merito dedicata. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1976, ISBN 3-447-01798-8 (for his 60th birthday).
  • Ruth I. Meserve: Denis Sinor. Bibliography (= Arcadia Bibliographica Virorum Eruditorum. Vol. 9). Eurolingua, Bloomington IN 1986, ISBN 0-931922-12-7 (for his 70th birthday).
  • Elena V. Boĭkova, Giovanni Stary, Elizabeth Carlson, Charles Carlson (eds.): Florilegia Altaistica. Studies in Honor of Denis Sinor on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday (= Asiatische Forschungen. Vol. 149). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-447-05396-8 (for his 90th birthday).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV , obituary
  2. ↑ Curriculum Vitae ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2008 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.indiana.edu
  3. ↑ Curriculum Vitae ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2008 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.indiana.edu
personal data
SURNAME Sinor, Denis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sinor, Dénes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Asian scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Cluj-Napoca
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2011
Place of death Bloomington (Indiana)