Adalbert László Arany Explained

Adalbert László Arany (Slovak: L. Albert Arany, 19 September 1909 – 13 October 1967) was a Slovakian Hungarian linguist,[1] teacher, ethnographer, museum director, one of the founders of Slovak dialect research.[2]

Life

Arany was born in Betlér on 19 September 1909. He graduated from high school in Rozsnyó and studied Slovak linguistics and philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava. He received his doctorate in 1937 and was a teacher at the Hungarian grammar school in Bratislava for many years. From 1937, as the head of the Hungarian committee of the Šafárik Scholars' Society, which was attached to the linguistics section, he directed the collection of Hungarian dialects in Slovakia. From 1943 to 1946 he was a researcher at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. In 1946 he was dismissed from his post because of his Hungarian nationality.[3]

In 1947 he joined the Hungarian Democratic People's Association of Czechoslovakia. In 1949 he was arrested and sentenced to 8 years of hard labour. He was released by presidential amnesty in 1955. From 1955 to 1958 he was director of the District Museum in Rozsnyo,[4] from 1958 he worked as a physical worker in Bratislava, then moved back to Rozsnyó because of a serious illness in a labour camp. In his last years he resumed his linguistic research. Together with Jozef Orlovský, he wrote the first structuralist grammar book in Slovak. He also worked on the ethnography of the Hungarians in Slovakia. His legacy was preserved by his family and later by Ferenc Ambrus. It was during the processing of this collection that the ballad collection he had collected with his students during World War II was rediscovered.

Arany died in Rozsnyó on 13 October 1967 at the age of 58. A memorial plaque was built in the village of Kolon in Slovakia.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Google Books . Google . 2010-06-30 . 2024-02-02.
  2. Web site: Arany A. László . Névpont.hu . hu . 2024-02-02.
  3. Web site: Arany Adalbert László . Courage – Gyűjtemények hálózata . 2018-01-29 . hu . 2024-02-02.
  4. Web site: Arany A. László . Névpont.hu . hu . 2024-02-02.