Hungarology
The Hungarian Studies (also Hungarian philology ) is a branch of the Finno-Ugric and includes the study of the Hungarian language and culture. It is generally composed of linguistics , literary studies , history , art history and folklore . Outside of Hungary, there is usually also language acquisition .
General
The Hungarian Studies was content and organization of the 20th century in the first quarter at the Hungarian Institute of the Friedrich-Wilhelm University marked in Berlin. As a graduate and postgraduate educational program, it envisaged interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary academic Hungarian studies outside of Hungary and with constant references to non-Hungarian topics. In addition to philology, it also included history , law , economics and art as well as folklore . Its early essential characteristics - interdisciplinarity, supraregionality and internationality - found their way into German East, East Central and Southeast European studies discursively after the Second World War. Its proponents rely on the main argument that the overall view of research and teaching on the greater area from the Baltic to the Adriatic and from the Alps to the Balkans also requires access to the historical traditions and contemporary situations of the non-Slavic peoples. This includes Hungary as a state and nation, in its internal and external systems of relationships.
Another justification for the demand for conceptual breadth and regional disciplinary embedding results from the internal structures of this work area. Hungarian science policy in the late 1970s restricted Hungarian science to literary, linguistic and ethnographic activities. This narrow conception seldom allows the division of labor to include neighboring disciplines. Today it is mainly to be found in Finno-Ugric / Ural Studies and language didactics . Its followers understand Hungarian studies mainly as a subject of the foreign language Hungarian , which also popularizes knowledge of the country.
The teaching of Hungarian is not research, but a prerequisite for research work with primary and secondary literature in this language. Hungarology can only satisfy the claim to unity of research and teaching with independent research. As a branch of the history, social, economic and cultural studies of East, East-Central and Southeast European studies, she is able to integrate her subjects of investigation into larger European contexts. At the same time, it can develop a greater attraction for a wide range of students, doctoral students and graduates. Top international research expects Hungarology to be redesigned through an area-wide and interdisciplinary treatment of Hungarian or Hungary-related topics, which thus entails participation in the development of East, East Central and Southeast European studies.
This project still leaves much to be desired in Germany's university operations. Of the Finno-Ugric / Uralistic university institutes, only the one in Hamburg has a specialist profile Hungarology, which is, however, subordinate to linguistic focuses. The specialization in literary studies at the Seminary for Hungarology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since the mid-1990s could not prevent the Magister Artium course there, with the class last enrolled in the winter semester 2003/2004, expiring. With its current restructuring, the Berlin Hungarology is planning its interdisciplinary and interphilological expansion. Efforts to modernize Hungarian Hungarology are ongoing in Munich as part of the cooperation between the Hungarian Institute in Munich and the History Department of the Ludwig Maximilians University . The periodic publication forum of hungarology as an interdisciplinary regional science is run by the Hungarian Institute Munich, which has been based in Regensburg since 2009. V. edited Hungary yearbook , journal for interdisciplinary hungarology. A Hungary Center was founded at the University of Regensburg at the beginning of 2013, which among other things offers a study program called Hungaricum in addition to the already existing East-Southeast Europe focus of the University of Regensburg .
The forerunner of Hungarology was introduced at the University of Vienna at the beginning of the 19th century as Hungarian Studies (Hungarian language and literature; history, culture and regional studies of Hungary). Hungarology has been based at the Institute for Finno-Ugric Studies since 1974 ( Károly Rédei 1974–2000, Johanna Laakso since 2000) and is represented as a focus of teaching and research within Finno-Ugric Studies. Until 2003 it was to be studied as a specialization in the Finno-Ugric Studies. With the curriculum reforms beginning in 2003, Hungarian Studies became an independent Bachelor's and Master's degree alongside the Fen and Finno-Ugric studies.
Universities and non-university research institutions
Hungarology can be studied at the following universities in German-speaking countries or is represented at the following institutions:
- Humboldt University of Berlin , Institute for Slavic Studies - Hungarian Literature and Culture
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Finnish-Ugric Seminar, [1]
- University of Hamburg , Center for Hungarology
- Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , Institute for Finno-Ugric / Ural Studies
- University of Vienna , Institute for Finno-Ugric Studies : Bachelor's and Master's degree in Hungarian Studies
- Hungarian Institute Munich , Hungarian Institute Munich
Within Hungary, the University of Debrecen offers combined Hungarian studies from several subjects.
Web links
- Institute for Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Vienna
- Finno-Ugric Studies Portal of the Student Representation