Tamás Adamik Explained

Tamás Adamik (born August 6, 1937) is a Hungarian classical philologist and linguist, literary historian, and translator. He joined Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest as a professor in 1973, where he worked in its Latin department until he took emeritus status in 2002. Adamik's areas of research focus have included Roman literature in Latin, Vulgar Latin, and Koine Greek; as well as early Christian literature.

Biography

Tamás Adamik was born in 1937 in Kecskemét in the Kingdom of Hungary. He attended a high school run by the Piarists in Kecskemét. He showed an early interest in languages, with his areas of special focus being Latin and Russian. He was so impressed by the Piarists that he considered joining the order as a monk, and studied theology with them for four years, but decided that giving up marriage would be a mistake. He left the Piarists and attended Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) where he studied Latin and Russian further, graduating with a dual major in both. He earned a master's degree in 1966, and defended his doctoral dissertation in 1967.[1]

He worked as a translator and editor of textbooks after university. Due to political pressures to gain a credential in something Marxism-related, Adamik applied for a correspondence postgraduate course where he could both fulfill his interest in languages but also get any Marxist philosophy requirements out of the way. Slavic languages was not offered as a correspondence course that year, ruling out Russian, but classical philology was, so he took that. The course rekindled his love of Latin and the classical world, and he received an invitation to join the Latin department of Eötvös Loránd University in 1973, initially as an adjunct, but quickly becoming an assistant professor.

In the academic year 1990–1991, he taught as a distinguished visiting professor at Millersville University in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. From 1991 to 2002, he served as the head professor of the Latin department of ELTE.[2] He took emeritus status in 2002.

Adamik's wife,, is also a linguist and university professor.[3] The couple has 4 children together.

In 1982, he received a prize for his translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric, and in 1984, a prize for his monograph on Martial, Hungarian: Martialis és költészete.[4] He was awarded the Commander's Cross of the civilian branch of the Hungarian Order of Merit in 2012.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: László . Rónay . László Rónay . Adamik Tamással . https://web.archive.org/web/20110127181911/http://www.vigilia.hu/2000/4/ada0004.html . 2011-01-27 . hu .
  2. Web site: DR. ADAMIK TAMÁS . Eötvös Loránd University . hu .
  3. Web site: Adamik Tamásné Jászó Anna tudományos életrajza . hu.
  4. Web site: Díjazottak . Ókortudományi Társaság . hu .
  5. Web site: Állami kitüntetések átadása a Parlament kupolatermében . https://web.archive.org/web/20140109184747/http://augusztus20.kormany.hu/allami-kituntetesek-atadasa-a-parlament-kupolatermeben-2012 . 2014-01-09 . dead . hu .

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