Lajos Fekete
Lajos Fekete (born June 12, 1891 in Tardos , † May 16, 1969 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian Turkologist .
academic career
Fekete first studied history and Latin philology from 1909 to 1914. During World War I he served on the Eastern Front, was captured and interned in Krasnoyarsk , Siberia. There he learned Turkish from an Ottoman prisoner of war. After his return to Hungary he studied Turkish philology in Budapest with Gyula Németh and in Vienna with Friedrich Kraelitz . From 1927 to 1928 he studied Arabic and Persian philology in Berlin .
From 1929 he worked as a teacher at the Peter Pazmany University in Budapest. From 1952 he was a full professor of Turkish philology.
His main research interests were Ottoman Hungary, diplomacy and paleography .
Works in German
- Introduction to the Ottoman-Turkish diplomacy of Turkish domination in Hungary. Budapest 1926 (Magyar Országos Levéltár kiadványai).
- Turkish writings from the archives of the Palatine Nikolaus Esterházy, 1606–1645. Budapest: University printing. 1932.
- The Siyagat script in the Turkish financial administration I – II: Contribution to Turkish palaeography. Budapest: Akadémiai. 1955. = Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica, 7.
- Introduction to Persian Paleography: 101 Persian Documents. Edited by György Hazai. Budapest: Akadémiai. 1976.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fekete, Lajos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian Turkologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tardos , Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1969 |
| Place of death | Budapest |