András Róna-Tas

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András Róna-Tas at a Hungarian conference

András Róna-Tas (born 30 December 1931) is a Hungarian historian and linguist. He was born in 1931 in

Tibetan, Mongol, and Turkic
.)

From 1956, he worked at the

Volga River basin.[citation needed] In 1964, Róna-Tas defended his candidates (CSc) degree, and finally in 1971 he earned a doctorate from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc) with his thesis "The Theory of Linguistic Affinity and the Linguistic Relations between the Chuvash and Mongol Languages", published as Linguistic Affinity in 1978.[citation needed
]

From 1968-2002, Róna-Tas was professor of

József Attila University in Szeged, where he is now a distinguished professor emeritus.[1] He has published over 450 papers, monographs and reviews. His magnum opus, A honfoglaló magyar nép, was published in 1996 and an extended translated version, Hungarians and Europe in the Early Middle Ages, appeared in 1999.[citation needed
]

In addition to his work on the early

]

Selected bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Doctoral School of Linguistics". University of Szeged. 29 March 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  2. ^ "The Migration and Landtaking of the Magyars". The Hungarian Quarterly. XXXVII (144). Winter 1996. Archived from the original on 2007-04-15. Retrieved 2017-07-05.