János Gulya

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János Gulya (born February 1, 1933 in Budapest , Hungary ; † February 11, 2017 in Wahlsburg ) was a Hungarian philologist , cultural historian and Finnougrist .

Life

János Gulya attended the Jesuit Pius High School in Pécs from 1943 to 1951 and the Janus Pannonius Gimnázium in Pécs. He then studied linguistics and literature as well as Hungarian with Finnish-Ugric philology at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest . In 1955 he was an aspirant at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with scholarships in Moscow (1955–1957), Dorpat ( Estonia ) and Finland . After his return in 1958 he worked at the chair for Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Budapest. In 1959 he moved to the Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as a research assistant and later became a main employee, then an academic councilor at the institute. In 1960 he became a candidate for science (CSc) at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1966 he held a visiting professorship at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

From 1975 to 1977 he was a part-time lecturer at the Chair of Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Science in Szeged . In 1975 Gulya was Secretary General of the IV International Congress of Finno-Ugrists in Budapest. In 1975 he qualified as a Doctor of Science (DrSc) at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

In 1976 he was offered a professorship at the University of Göttingen. A year later he was appointed full professor and full professor at the Finnish-Ugric seminar at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. In 2001 he retired. He teaches as an honorary professor at the Attila József University in Szeged. In 2001/02 he was a substitute professor at the Finnish-Ugric seminary. In 2004/06 he held a visiting professorship at the Jugorian State University in Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia . He was a member of numerous academic and university commissions in Germany and abroad.

In 2000, the Catholic János Gulya was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Grand Master Carlo Cardinal Furno and invested in Aachen Cathedral on May 20, 2000 by Anton Schlembach , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

He had been married to the language researcher Viktoria Gulya since 1962.

honors and awards

  • Member of the Hungarian Linguistic Society (Magyar Nyelvtudományi Társaság)
  • Foreign member of the Finnish-Ugric Society (Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura)
  • Corresponding member of the Finnish Literature Society (Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura)
  • Honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Science and Art
  • Member of the Societas Uralo-Altaica (SUA)

Fonts (selection)

  • Egy 1736-ból származó manysi nyelvemlék , oN
  • Asszony-unokája. Vogul népmesék. Válogatta, fordította, az utószót és a jegyzeteket írta Gulya J. , 1959
  • Siberian fairy tales, Vol. 1, Wogulen and Ostjaken , Diederichs 1968
  • Kék vándorutak , Európa Könyvk 1969, together with Juván Sesztalov
  • Active, ergative and passive in Vach-Ostjakischen , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1970
  • Sajnovics János Emlékünnepség És Tudománytörténeti Szimpozion , Magyar nyelvtudományi társaság 1974, together with István Szathmári
  • A vízimadarak népe: tanulmányok a finnugor rokon népek élete és müveltsége köréből , Európa Könyvkiadó 1975, together with Péter Hajdú
  • Gyarmathi Sámuel , Akadémiai Kiadó 1978
  • Opuscula Fenno-Ugrica Gottingensia , Lang 1987
  • Anthology and intercultural reception , Lang 1995, together with Norbert Lossau
  • A mondatszerkezetek rendszere a vahi osztjákban , Universitas Szegediensis de Attila József Nominata, 1994
  • Wogulen and Ostjaken , Diederichs 1995, together with Gerhard Doerfer
  • Eastern Ostyak Chrestomathy , Routledge Curzan 1997
  • Confrontation and Identification: The Finnish-Ugric Languages ​​and Peoples in a European Context , Harrassowitz 2002

swell

  • Who is who ?: The German Who's Who 1995, Volume 34, Page 456
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, Volumes 1–3, Saur 1996, page 464

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2017 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 / zusammen-trauern.bestattungshaus-benstem.de
  2. ^ A b “Golden Wedding of Viktoria and János Gulya” , Diocese of Hildesheim , April 28, 2012
  3. ^ Members of the Societas Uralo-Altaica (SUA), eV , accessed on February 3, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Gulya, Janos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian philologist, cultural historian and Finnougrist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2017
Place of death Wahlsburg