Ethnography Studies at Hungarian Universities up to 1960 : (A Festive Retrospective on the Occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the Foundation of the ELTE Institute of Ethnography)

Paládi-Kovács, Attila (2025) Ethnography Studies at Hungarian Universities up to 1960 : (A Festive Retrospective on the Occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the Foundation of the ELTE Institute of Ethnography). ACTA ETHNOGRAPHICA HUNGARICA, 69 (1). pp. 5-19. ISSN 1216-9803

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Abstract

At the University of Pest at the end of the 18th century, it was Dániel Cornides (1732–1787) who explored Hungarian ancient religion, while András Dugonics (1740–1818) studied various aspects of Hungarian folk poetry (tales, idioms, proverbs) and folk customs in his lectures. Descriptive statistics, reports on the state of affairs in various regions and ethnic groups within the country documented the ethnographic character of these areas and groups in the first half of the 19th century. In the second half of the century, professors of Hungarian literature and language investigated and discussed these topics with a comparative European perspective at universities. Ethnographic and folklore-related knowledge was disseminated by excellent professors of classical philology and oriental studies. Professors of geography (János Hunfalvy, Lajos Lóczy) played a crucial role in providing information about faraway peoples and continents at the University of Budapest.

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