Bernát Munkácsi and Finno-ugric studies in Hungary at the turn of 19–20 centuries.

Abstract

The article presents a chronology of scientific research of the Hungarian linguist and ethnographerб who studied Finno-Ugric peoples – Bernát Munkácsi (1860–1937). The first scientific trip of B. Munkácsi took place in the summer of 1880 to the Hungarians speaking the Csángó dialect in Moldova province. The route of the expedition in 1885 led him to different ethnographic groups of the Udmurts. The longest trip was taken in 1888 to the Northern Urals and Western Siberia to the Ob-Ugric peoples. A special place is occupied by the analysis of his collecting work among prisoners of war during the First world war. The author of the fundamental volumes of folk poetry and ethnographic texts about Udmurts and Mansi, Munkácsi went down in the history of Finno-Ugric studies as one of the pioneers of field research and a humanist.