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The Foundations of, Studies on, and Sources of Hungarology in Turkey
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Seyithan AltaşRecep Tayyip Erdoğan University
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Hungarology is a field that studies research on the Hungarian language, history and culture. The earliest studies in this field begin with the activities of researc-hing the roots of the ancient Hungarian language and its history. These studies, which started in Hungary, later turned into a field of Turcology studies. The most important source of these studies can be said to be the times when Turkish-Hungarian relations started. Hungarology studies in Turkey cannot be evaluated independently of these ear-ly studies. Although the scientific infrastructure of Hungarology studies in Turkey goes back to ancient times, it started with the establishment of the Faculty of Language, History and Geography as formal research and the opening of a Hungarology Institu-te in this Faculty. Atatürk showed how much importance he attached to this issue by bringing a Hungarian scientist Laszlo Rasonyi to the head of the Hungarology Chair he had founded. Studies in this field are accepted as a part of Atatürk’s civilization and cultural policies. The studies initiated by Atatürk within the scope of the Turkish History Thesis and the Sun Language Theory were carried out in connection with the studies in the field of Hungarology, together with the philologies established within this faculty. Atatürk brought Laszlo Rasonyi to the chair and connected Hungarology studies to a scientific discipline. Hungarology studies, which was a sub-research field of Turcology in the beginning, was transformed into a classical philology after the 1980s. The sources and researches of Hungarology in Turkey could not be carried out in parallel with the Hungarology studies in the world. The aim of this study is to evaluate and analyze the sources of scientists who work in Hungarology studies and work in this field in Turkey.
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Publication TypeChapter
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Volume
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Pages239-263
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PublishedJune 7, 2025
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Series PositionProceedings 03
Bela, B. (Ed.). (2025). The Foundations of, Studies on, and Sources of Hungarology in Turkey. In 2nd Balkan Studies Congress Proceedings: Vol. Proceedings 03 (pp. 239-263). Idefe Publications. https://doi.org/10.5331/