Zsolt K. Lengyel

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Zsolt K. Lengyel (born November 23, 1960 in Cluj , Romania ) is a Hungarian-German historian and political scientist . He has been Managing Director of the Hungarian Institute at the University of Regensburg since 2015 .

biography

Lengyel's family is from Transylvania , where until he emigration of his parents, the Music High School in 1973 Cluj visited. After another year at the grammar school in Arad, Romania, he moved with his brother to his parents in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1974. In 1980 he passed his Abitur at the Old Electoral High School in Bensheim .

From 1981 to 1982 he studied modern and contemporary history, political science and philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg . From 1982 to 1986 he completed his studies in the history of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, political science, general and comparative literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a Magister Artium . In 1992 he received his doctorate there under Edgar Hösch with the work In search of the compromise. Origins and shapes of early Transilvanism 1918–1928 . Between 1989 and 1992 he received a scholarship from the Hanns Seidel Foundation .

Lengyel has been working at the Hungarian Institute in Munich (UIM) since 1982 . He worked there as a research assistant until 1998, before becoming managing director in 1998 and director and club chairman in 2002. At the same time he was a lecturer from 1989 to 2003 and from 1996 also a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe at the Ludwig Maximilians University. He habilitated in 2008 at the Budapest Eötvös Loránd University in the subject History .

Since the UIM moved to Regensburg in 2009, he has been the head and teacher of hungarian education at the University of Regensburg , and since 2015 the managing director of the Hungaricum - Hungarian Institute .

Zsolt K. Lengyel is divorced and has three children.

activities

His research focuses on the history of Hungary , Romania, Transylvania and Austria-Hungary with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition, Lengyel researches political theory as well as international and interethnic relations. He also deals with the history and development of Hungarology. It was published in 1983 in German and Hungarian.

At the Hungarian Institute in Munich he works as editor and editor-in-chief of the periodicals Studia Hungarica and the Hungarian Yearbook . In addition, he has been chairman of the Association of Hungarian Institutes in Munich since 2002 . V. , who has been a funding and cooperation partner of the Hungarian Institute of the University of Regensburg since 2015.

In 2010 Lengyel was honored with the Pro Cultura Hungarica medal by the Hungarian ambassador to Germany, Sándor Peisch , for his services in spreading Hungarian culture .

Publications (selection)

  • The new Eastern Europe from A – Z. Edited by Peter Rehder. Munich 1992, 1993 (co-author);
  • In search of the compromise. Origins and shapes of early Transilvanism 1918–1928. Munich 1993.
  • Emigráció, szórvány, hungarológia. Válogatott írások 1985–2012 [Emigration, Diaspora, Hungarology. Selected Writings 1985–2012]. Budapest 2012.
  • Tükrözés és torzulás. Magyarország és a magyar kisebbségek képe a német politikai irodalomban 1993–1994 [Images and distorted images. The Image of Hungary and the Hungarian Minorities in German Political Literature 1993–1994]. Budapest 2014.
  • The learned exile. A short biography of the historian Thomas von Bogyay. Regensburg 2018.
  • Magyar politikai enciklopédia [Hungarian political encyclopedia]. Edited by Pásztor Péter. Budapest 2019 (co-author).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ágnes Deák, Gábor Ujváry: "... alternatíva és kompromisszum mint történetiprobleméma" . In: Zsolt K. Lengyel (ed.): Emigráció, szórvány, hungarológia. Válogatott írások 1985–2012 . Ráció Kiadó, Budapest 2012, p. 511-528 ( oszk.hu [PDF]).
  2. ↑ a b K. Lengyel Zsolt. In: Adatbank - erdélyi magyar elektronikus Könyvtár. Retrieved May 10, 2020 (CV, Hungarian).
  3. ↑ a b CV on the website of the University of Regensburg. July 2015, accessed on May 10, 2020 (PDF, 193 KB).
  4. ^ List of publications on the website of the University of Regensburg. Status: June 2019, accessed on May 10, 2020 (PDF, 389 KB).
  5. ^ Louisa Knobloch: Promote the dialogue with Hungary. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung , December 9, 2015, accessed on May 10, 2020.
  6. ↑ Hungarian ambassador honors Lengyel. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung , March 10, 2010, accessed on May 10, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Lengyel, Zsolt K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lengyel, Zsolt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-German historian and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Cluj , Romania