Károly Rédei

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Károly Rédei , born as Károly Radanovics (born April 11, 1932 in Kiskanizsa ; † August 17, 2008 in Budapest ), was a Hungarian Finnougrist who founded the subject in Austria.

Life

Rédei graduated from the Piarist High School in Nagykanizsa in 1951 and studied "Hungarian Language and Literature" and "Finnish-Ugric Linguistics" at the Philosophical Faculty of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest . After completing his studies in 1955, he began a scientific career and wrote his dissertation in 1960 with Die Postpositionen des Syrjänischen taking into account Votjakischen in . From 1955 he was a research assistant and from 1967 head of the Finnish-Ugric department of the Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . He obtained his academic doctorate through the work The Syrian loanwords in Vogul in 1967.

As an internationally known Finnougrist, Rédei became the founding professor of Finnougristics at the University of Vienna . In the fall of 1974 he was appointed full professor. He headed the Institute for Finno-Ugric Studies at the university until his retirement in 2000. It remained the only chair for Finno-Ugric Studies in Austria. His areas of expertise within the subject were etymology , phonetic history and Obagrian and Permian linguistics. He researched the language contact between Ural and Indo-European , between Komi and Obugrisch , between Old Permian and Old Church Slavonic . Loan word studies were an important part of his work in the field of etymology research.

Rédei spoke out against the "populist search for a glorious past, which in Hungary in the form of amateurish language comparisons - Hungarian is said to be related to Sumerian , Etruscan , etc.". His work Őstörténetünk kérdései (Questions Our Prehistory), published in 1998, is a “detailed and devastating criticism of linguistic charlatanry”.

Rédei also became known as the editor-in-chief of the Ural Etymological Dictionary, the standard work of comparative Finnish-Ugric studies. He was also editor of the magazine Nyelvtudományi Közlemények and received numerous awards such as the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland .

Fonts (selection)

  • The post positions of Syrian with consideration of Votyak. Publishing house of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1962.
  • Northern Ostyak Chrestomathy . (= Uralic and Altaic Series , 47) Mouton & Co., Hague 1965.
  • North East Yak texts (Kazym dialect) with a sketch of the grammar. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1968.
  • The Syrian loanwords in Vogul. Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1970.
  • Zyrian folklore text. Publishing house of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1978.
  • Chrestomathia Syrjaenica. Tankönyvkiadó, Budapest 1978.
  • To the Indo-European-Uralic language contacts. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7001-0768-4 .
  • Ural Etymological Dictionary. 3 volumes, Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1988–91, ISBN 963-05-3067-8 .
  • Őstörténetünk kérdései. A nyelvészeti dilettantizmus kritikája. Balassi Kiadó, Budapest 1998, ISBN 963-506-238-9 .
  • Lászlo Honti (Ed.): Selected writings by Károly Rédei. Made for Károly Rédei for her 70th birthday. Elte, Budapest 2002, ISBN 963-463-553-9 .

literature

  • Pál Deréky (Ed.): Festschrift for Károly Rédei on his 60th birthday. Vienna / Budapest 1998, ISBN 963-8461-57-8 .
  • Pál Deréky: On the prehistory of the establishment of the Institute for Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Vienna. In: Márta Csire, Erika Erlinghagen, Zsuzsa Gáti, Brigitta Pesti, Wolfgang Müller-Funk (eds.): A land with properties. Language, literature and culture in Hungary in transnational contexts. Praesens, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-7069-0840-5 , pp. 19–43.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Em. O. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Károly Rédei (1932-2008). Obituary of the University of Vienna
  2. ↑ a b c d Johanna Laakso: Károly Rédei 1932–2008. Nekrolog in: Finnish-Ugric research. Journal of Finnish-Ugric Linguistics and Folklore. 60 (2009), pp. 390–393. ( PDF )
  3. ^ History of the department. Department of Finno-Ugric Studies, Institute for European and Comparative Linguistics and Literature at the University of Vienna.
personal data
SURNAME Rédei, Károly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Redei, Karoja; Radanovics, Károly; Rédei Radanovics, Károly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian Finno-Ugrist from the University of Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiskanizsa
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 2008
Place of death Budapest