Loránd Benkő, mentor of Hungarian linguistics in Transylvania
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2022.1.21Keywords:
Hungarian school of linguistics from Kolozsvár/Cluj, Attila T. Szabó, isolation from Hungary, Hungarian Historical Dictionary of Transylvania, Atlas of Hungarian Dialects in Romania, Moldavian Hungarians (Csángós), Szeklers, direct contactsAbstract
An outstanding personality of 20th-century Hungarian linguistics, Loránd Benkő, born a hundred years ago, had close ties to Transylvania and the Hungarian linguistics of Transylvania. He was born in Transylvania, studied at the University of Kolozsvár/Cluj and began his professional career at the Transylvanian Institute of Science under the direction of Attila T. Szabó. His significant research topics were also largely Transylvanian, and he succeeded in shedding new light on the origins of the Hungarian ethnic groups in Transylvania with a wealth of onomastic and historical linguistic data. In the isolation of Hungarian linguistics of Transylvania after World War II, Loránd Benkő played an important role in publishing the works of linguists from Kolozsvár/Cluj as the head of university and academic institutions and the editor of the review Magyar Nyelv (The Hungarian Language). It is mainly due to his support that the great syntheses of Transylvanian linguistics were published after 1990: the 14-volume Hungarian Historical Dictionary of Transylvania (Erdélyi magyar szótörténeti tár) and the 11-volume Atlas of Hungarian Dialects in Romania (A romániai magyar nyelvjárások atlasza), as well as the rich material of Attila T. Szabó’s repository of historical toponymy.
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