Mongolian studies
Dr. habil Ágnes BIRTALANProfessor, head of the ELTE Department of Inner Asian Studies
E-mail: birtalan.agnes@btk.elte.hu
Studied at ELTE University (1979–1985) Mongolian philology – Russian Language and Literature – History. Carried out postgraduate work in Manchu and Tibetan studies at Seminar für Zentralasiatische Studien und Sprachwissenschaft Universität Bonn (1991) and on Korean language and religious studies in Seoul (Yonsei 1996, 1997 sponsored by the SEOUL Peace Prize Fellowship.
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Dr. Mátyás BALOGHAssistant Professor
E-mail: balogh.matyas@btk.elte.hu
Majored in Mongolian studies at ELTE in 2004. After graduation, in 2004-05 he studied Mongolian linguistics and Chinese for one year at Choi Luvsanjav University in Ulaanbaatar. From 2005 to 2008 he attended the doctoral program in Mongolian studies at ELTE and received his PhD degree in 2012. His dissertation is entitled: Contemporary Buryat Shamanism in Mongolia. In the same year he began studying Sinology at his home university, where he started to work as a professor’s assistant in 2005. Since 2015 he has been a senior lecturer (adjunct) in the Mongolian department. Fields of research and interest: between 2003-10 predominantly the shamanic traditions in contemporary Mongolian culture and the dialects of the Mongolian language, and more recently the history of China's northern frontiers.
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Dorj Lkhagvasurenlektor
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Dr. Zsolt SZILÁGYIResearch Fellow
E-mail: szilagyi.zsolt@btk.mta.hu
Zsolt Szilágyi is a senior research fellow of the Institute of Ethnology, Research Centre for Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He studied history at the University of Miskolc and Mongolian studies at the Department of Inner Asian Studies of Eötvös Loránd University. He obtained MA degrees at both universities in 1999. From 1999 to 2002 he was a student of the Mongolian studies PhD program at the University ELTE, conducting research on the political role of Mongolian Buddhism in the beginning of the 20th century, obtaining his PhD degree in 2005 (summa cum laude). In 2011 he defended his PhD thesis in history (summa cum laude). His main research fields are: Social and political history of Inner and East Asia, History of Inner Asian Buddhism, social and political role of Buddhism in Asia, ethnology of religions.
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