György Kara
György Kara (born June 23, 1935 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian Mongolist and Turkologist .
Life
György Kara was born as György Katulics on June 23, 1935 in Budapest . After graduating from high school, he enrolled at Eötvös Loránd University in 1953 , where he studied humanities. Among his professors, it was primarily the Turkologists and philologists Julius Németh and Lajos Ligeti who shaped the young scientist.
After completing his dissertation in 1958, he stayed at the Eötvös Loránd University. In 1967/68 he had a research stay in Saint Petersburg. In 1971 he was appointed director of the University's Central Asian Institute. In 1975 he also became the director of the Institute for Altai Research at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which he remained until 2000. In 1984 he was visiting professor at Hokkaido University in Japan.
Between 1968 and 1997 he was chairman of the Altaist Kőrösi-Csoma Society ( Kőrösi Csoma Társaság ), and he was also a member of the editorial team of Acta Orientalia Hungarica .
Between 1986 and 1990 he gave guest lectures at Indiana University , where he was finally taken on as a professor in 1993. Since then he has been teaching at the Department of Central Eurasian Studies there . His teaching activities cover philological and cultural aspects of Mongolian Studies (Classical Mongolian, Mongolian Literature, Shamanism), Turkology ( Old Turkish ) and Tungusology ( Manchu and Evenki ). His research area is generally the Altaic languages and their peoples, although he rejects a genetic relationship between these languages and thus the Altaic theory.
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| SURNAME | Kara, György |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian Mongolist and Turkologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |