Bernat Munkacsi
Bernat Munkacsi · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Hungarian linguist and scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages.
1860, Nagyvárad, Hungary (now Oradea, Romania) — 1937, Budapest, Hungary
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Bernat Munkacsi is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Hungarian linguist and scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages.
Munkácsi was a Hungarian linguist and ethnographer who carried out pioneering fieldwork on the Finno-Ugric languages, especially Udmurt (Votyak) and Mansi (Vogul), and also studied the Jewish dialects of Hungary. His comparative dictionaries remain foundational. He was Jewish and served as a scholar of the Budapest Jewish community.
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Hungarian linguist and scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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