Multiple volume presentation – with minority undertones in Budapest

THE Amber Road – Central Europe project and what is realized within it Báthory téka an event presenting the first volumes of the book publishing program was opened in the Józsa Judit Gallery in Budapest by János Pusztay, who designed and led the project, and who founded the Collegium Fenno-Ugricum Research Institute more than a decade and a half ago. Even after his retirement, János Pusztay did not give up his scientific activities, so he is still the head of the aforementioned research institute and an active researcher. The project is implemented by Collegium Fenno-Ugricum together with Tokaj-Hegyalja University based in Sárospatak. It is a pioneering enterprise!

The first speaker of the event Keri Szabolcs professor, was the rector of Tokaj-Hegyalja University, who praised the Amber Road – Central Europe project, which deals with the peoples, languages, culture and relations of the countries of the strip stretching from the Alps-Adriatic region to the Baltic.

After Keri Szabolcs János Pusztay presented by Amber Road – Central Europe project, which consists of two elements: a book publishing program and the organization of international conferences.

The publishing program of Báthory téka books, realized with the editor-in-chief of János Pusztay, includes several series, three of which (Hungaro-Baltica, Minorities, Literature – Studies) has now published its first volume. As János Pusztay put it, the Minorities within the framework of the series, they also look at the Scandinavian region, since a significant Hungarian minority lives in the three Scandinavian countries, mainly thanks to Hungarians who emigrated from Transylvania, and – in accordance with the original program of the Collegium Fenno-Ugricum – also at the Finno-Ugric regions of Russia.

János Pusztay, who retired as a professor at the University of Szombathely and was also a professor at the Konstantin Philosophical University in Niitra for a decade from 2008, asked Professor Sándor Maticsák, head of the Department of Finno-Ugric Linguistics at the University of Debrecen, to present the first of the Hungaro-Baltica series his volume, Hungarian-Baltic Finnish linguistic and cultural comparisons c. book.

Sándor Maticsák emphasized that the volume compiled from the studies of various authors tells, among other things, about the hundred-year history of cultural autonomy in Estonia, about Hungarian-Estonian interstate relations between the two world wars, as well as about the specific history of the Soviet period in Estonia, it talks about the repatriation of Hungarian prisoners of war from Russia during the First World War (because 80,000 Hungarians thus returned home, which is almost half of the Hungarian prisoners of war in Russia during the First World War!), but those interested can also read here about the common elements of Finnish and Hungarian folk prayers. The authors of the volume, which contains studies in Hungarian, English and Finnish, also include Polish experts. One of them – to highlight just one – analyzes the common features of the Baltic Finnish peoples and Hungarian flag elements!

The first issue of the Literatura – Studia series, the two-volume work of János Pusztay (Literary Wanderings from the Baltic Sea to the Urals), Zoltán Jánosi professor of literary history, member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts praised him. He emphasized that, in addition to Estonian and Finnish literature, the various Finno-Ugric in Russia or, as many of the Hungarian historians and linguists researching the topic prefer to put it, it is important to deal with the literature and history of the Uralic peoples because these small peoples are expected to disappear within fifty years. so now it is still possible to research what in half a century will be a dead letter in reality. It is true that gloomy prophecies cannot be considered as self-fulfilling prophecies in all cases, because there have been examples of the opposite, said Zoltán Jánosi.

The first volume of the Báthory téka’s Minoritates series is Máté László Tiszta beszéd c. book, which collected the studies and writings of the author from Kasa in the last decade and a half.

The book Péter Pomozi, the director of the Hungarian Language History Research Center of the Hungarian Research Institute, associate professor, who said that the volume, in addition to his studies and articles on Sándor Máté László, László Németh, Mihály Czine, but also on Rudolf Schuster and other Slovak politicians, devotes the most attention to Zoltán Fábry. László Máté – said Péter Pomozi – considers him one of the most outstanding personalities of Hungarian cultural life in the highlands and universal Hungarian literature.

He was the last to speak Laszlo Máté who also thanked the unusual and significant support he received from the publisher. It was exceptional help in all respects, said the guest from the Cashier.

János Pusztay said that Collegium Fenno-Ugricum and Tokaj-Hegyalja University jointly organized two international conferences this year. The first in the second half of May this year in the Hungaro-Baltica theme – in Badacsony, while the second in autumn in the theme of nationalities, to which speakers from the eastern part of the Highlands are also invited – in Sárospatak.

After the briefing, a reception and signing took place in the Józsa Judit Gallery.

The project will also be presented on May 8 in Sárospatak, and on May 10 it will be presented in Kassa with Máté László Tiszta beszéd. book.

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