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Josef Budenz (Hungarian: József Budenz) (13 June 1836–15 April 1892) was a German comparative linguist specializing in Finno-Ugric who researched the origins of the Hungarian language.

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Josef Budenz
German-born linguist of Hungarian
Born	(1836-06-13)June 13, 1836 Rasdorf, Germany
Died	April 15, 1892(1892-04-15) (aged 55) Budapest
Nationality	German
Occupation	linguist
Known for	origins of Hungarian

Early life and education

József Budenz graduated from high school in Fulda in 1854[1] and studied in Marburg and from 1855 for three years in Göttingen, among others with Theodor Benfey[1] with a focus on Indo-European comparative linguistics. He received his doctorate in 1858.

Career

In 1858 he was in Budapest and taught in Székesfehérvár. In 1861 he was appointed librarian of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He deepened his knowledge of Uralic and Altaic languages under the guidance of Pál Hunfalvy ^{[de; hu; pl; eo]}. From 1868[lower-alpha 1] he was a full professor of Altaic comparative linguistics, the chair having been established especially for him. In 1871 he became a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. On 17 March 1884, he was honored in the university auditorium. From 1876 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.

Origins of Hungarian

Today, the consensus among linguists is that Hungarian is a member of the Uralic family of languages.

The classification of Hungarian as a Uralic/Finno-Ugric rather than a Turkic language was a matter of impassioned political controversy throughout the 18th and into the 19th centuries. During the latter half of the 19th century, a competing hypothesis proposed a Turkic affinity of Hungarian, or, alternatively, that both the Uralic and the Turkic families formed part of a superfamily of Ural–Altaic languages.[2][3]

The debate came to a head in the 1880s between the two camps,[4] known as the Ugric-Turkic war.[2] One camp proposed that Hungarians were related to Turanians, supported by Arminius Vambery who wrote a book on the topic and was a friend of Budenz. Budenz attacked Vambery's book in a lecture at the Hungarian Academy, and challenged his methods as unscientific. Vambery struck back with his own accusations against his friend.[4] After things settled, the Finno-Ugric hypothesis was concluded the sounder of the two, mainly based on work by Budenz.[2]

Death

Budenz died in Budapest on 15 April 1892, and was buried on 17 April 1892.

Memorials and retrospectives

On 27 May 1963, a memorial plaque was dedicated in his honor at the house where he was born, currently in use as the town hall of the village where he formerly attended school in Rasdorf.[5] The commemorative plaque bears the inscription: "Here stood until 1954 the house in which on 13 June 1836 Joseph Budenz was born. He was a professor at the University of Budapest from 1868 until his death on 15 April 1892, and is the founder of modern Finno-Ugric comparative linguistics. Donated by the Societas Uralo-Altaica on May 23, 1963."^{[citation needed]}

The Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter also published an article about him in 1936 on the centenary of his birth.[6]

The Budenz Gymnasium in Budapest published a Budenz memorial book in Hungarian in 2002. A "Budenz Day" is held every year at the Finno-Ugrian Seminar of the University of Göttingen.

Works

• Budenz, József (1869). Ugrische Sprachstudien (in German). Vol. I–II. Pest: L. Aigner. OCLC 492188431.
• Übersicht der Verzweigung der ugrischen Sprachen, 1878
• Budenz, József (1966). A comparative dictionary of the Finno-Ugric elements in the Hungarian vocabulary. Uralic and Altaic series, v. 78. Bloomington: Indiana University. OCLC 15269354.

See also

References

Notes

Citations

Further reading

• von Farkas, Julius (1955). "Josef Budenz". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Munich: HiKo. OCLC 923301198.

• Décsy, Gyula (1980). Beiträge zur Geschichte einer 1200-jährigen Gemeinde, Historische Festgabe zur 1200-Jahr-Feier [Rasdorf, Contributions to the history of a 1200-year-old municipality, historical commemorative publication on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary.] (in German). Rasdorf: Gemeindevorstand der Gemeinde Rasdorf. p. 126ff. OCLC 74609704.

• Sturm, Erwin (1971). Rasdorf, Geschichte und Kunst [Rasdorf, history and art] (in German). Fulda: Parzeller. p. 31ff. OCLC 977734689.

External links

• Jozsef Budenz in the Hungarian Biography Lexicon (in Hungarian)

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