Loránd Benkő, the head of department
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2022.1.61Keywords:
Loránd Benkő, heading a department, direction of scholarship, organization of research, human and professional qualities, establishing a new school of thoughtAbstract
The author of this paper summarises his reflections on Loránd Benkő on the basis of personal experiences of the decades he spent at Benkő’s department and memories of some former colleagues. He points out that Loránd Benkő was an ideal head of department, a scholar of high esteem, and an excellent leader. He had clear ideas concerning the tasks and general issues of historical linguistics, the proper relationship to one’s mother tongue, and the moral obligations of a research worker. He was an excellent manager and editor who saw clearly that the time was ripe, in Hungarian linguistics, too, to establish communities of researchers and to compile large overall syntheses. He was a superb educator of successors. He demanded achievements rigorously but gave full freedom to his collaborators. He was a humane and wise leader, and his scholarly commitment and personal example were a source of inspiration.
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