Abstract
The seventieth birthday commemoration of the outstanding representative of Hungarian Turkic studies, Professor Mária Ivanics, was held 11 September 2020, at 11 a.m., in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences building at the University of Szeged in Hungary. Professor Ivanics’s many friends, colleagues, and students gathered to congratulate her and pay tribute to her professional achievements. The Vice Dean of the faculty, Klára Sándor, Academician András Róna-Tas (in absentia), Professor Sándor Papp, and Professor István Zimonyi spoke in honor of Professor Ivanics. Among these presenters, Professor István Zimonyi, the head of the Department of Altaic Studies and the Department of Medieval History, spoke on behalf of the former department about Ivanics’ academic career and presented the volume Ottomans–Crimea–Jochids: Studies in Honour of Mária Ivanics, in which leading Hungarian and foreign scholars and young researchers published papers dedicated to her. This Festschrift presents various aspects of the development of Turkic culture and languages, TurkicHungarian relations (including Ottoman-Hungarian relations), as well as the history and culture of the Ottoman Empire and the Golden Horde. It contains 29 works by scholars from universities in Germany, Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Hungary. The collected articles are presented in five languages – English, German, Russian, Hungarian, and Turkish.
Highlights
On behalf of the founder of the Department of Altaic Studies at the University of Szeged, Academician András Róna-Tas, who was unable to attend the celebration, Dr Éva Kincses-Nagy read a warm letter of congratulation
Professor Róna-Tas was looking for an assistant lecturer who, in addition to having outstanding academic knowledge, would engage in those issues of Turkic studies that he did not address
The final article in the Festschrift is titled “Edil in Däftär-i Čingiz-nāmä” and presented in English by Professor István Zimonyi, who considers the name of the hydronym Etil/ Edil (Volga) in Däftär-i Čingiz-n ä
Summary
On August 31, 2020, Professor Mária Ivanics – an outstanding representative of Hungarian Turkic studies, professor of the University of Szeged, and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – celebrated her seventieth birthday. On behalf of the founder of the Department of Altaic Studies at the University of Szeged, Academician András Róna-Tas, who was unable to attend the celebration, Dr Éva Kincses-Nagy read a warm letter of congratulation. Regarding the Celebration of the Seventieth Birthday of Mária Ivanics lighted Professor Ivanics’s human qualities along with her scientific work.
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