Peter Benjamin Golden

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Peter Benjamin Golden

Peter Benjamin Golden (* 1941) is Professor of History at Rutgers University .

Golden's research focuses on the Turkish nomads of medieval Eurasia, their interactions with Russia, Byzantium, the Caucasus and Islamic countries, Turkish philology, Hungarian proto-history, Caucasian studies and ethnogenesis. The main work of the polyglot scientist is the Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples (1992), which has also been translated into Turkish.

Awards

  • Honorary member of the Türk Dil Kurumu (1989)
  • Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research (1994)
  • Provost's Award for Excellent Research (2005)

Memberships

  • American Historical Association
  • American Oriental Society
  • Asian Studies Association
  • Association for the Advancement of Central Asian Research
  • Byzantine Studies Conference
  • Central Asian Studies Association
  • Early Slavic Studies Association
  • Eurasian Linguistic Association
  • Institute for Advanced Study
  • Middle Eastern Studies Association
  • Middle East Medievalists Association
  • Mongolia Society
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Society for Iranian Studies
  • Society for the Study of Caucasia
  • Turkish Studies Association
  • Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in US
  • World History Association
  • World Turkology Association

Works

  • Khazar Studies. An Historico-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars ( Khazar Studies. A Historical-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars), Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica, XXV, 1–2, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1980, 2 volumes
  • The Byzantine Greek Elements in the Rasûlid Hexaglot (Byzantine-Greek elements in the Rasulid vocabulary), Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, V (1985), pp. 41-166
  • An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples: Ethnogenesis and State-Formation in Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia and the Middle East , (An Introduction to the History of the Turkish Peoples: Ethnogenesis and State Formation in Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia and the Middle East ), from the series: Turcologica , Vol. 9 (ed. Lars Johanson), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1992
  • The King's Dictionary. The Rasülid Hexaglot: Fourteenth-Century Vocabularies in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian and Mongolian (The King's Dictionary. The Rasulid Vocabulary: 14th Century Vocabulary in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Mongolian), edited with an introduction and commentary, translated by T. Halasi-Kun, PB Golden, L. Ligeti, Ö. Schütz, with essays by PB Golden and T.Th. Allsen, Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2000
  • Türk Halkları Tarihine Giriş (An Introduction to the History of the Turkish Peoples), translated by Osman Karatay, Ankara: KaraM Yayınevi, 2002
  • Nomads and their Neighbors in the Russian Steppe. Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs (nomads and their neighbors in the Russian steppe. Turks, Khazars and Kipchaks ) in Variorum Collected Studies series, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2003
  • Co-author with C. Zuckerman, A. Zajączkowski, Hazarlar ve Musevîlik (The Khazars and Judaism), edited by O. Karatay, Çorum: KaraM Yayınevi, 2005

Remarks

  1. He should speak the following Slavic languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, as well as the Turkish languages ​​Ottoman, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Kipchak, Old and Middle Turkish and also Arabic, Persian, Georgian , Hungarian, Greek, Latin, French, Spanish and German

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