György Györffy
| György Györffy | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Györffy György 26 September 1917 Szucság, Hungary (Romanian: Suceagu) |
| Died | 19 December 2000 (aged 83) Budapest, Hungary |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Awards |
Herder Prize (1988) Széchenyi Prize (1992) |
György Györffy (Szucság (Romanian: Suceagu), 26 September 1917 – Budapest, 19 December 2000) was a Hungarian historian, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungarian: MTA).
Györffy was born in Szucság, Hungary the son of ethnographer István Györffy and Anna Papp. He finished his secondary schooling in the St. István Grammar School in 1935. Between 1935 and 1939 he studied at the Peter Pázmány University (now Eötvös Loránd University) under the historian Sándor Domanovszky, Elemér Mályusz, and the linguist and turkologist Gyula Németh.
Towards the end of this time he took a sabbatical around the Baltic Sea, Finland and Lapland. When he received the news of the start of World War II he returned to Hungary, arriving back in October 1939.
In June 1940, he was awarded a Doctorate in Hungarian Cultural History with his thesis "Besenyők és magyarok" ("Pechenegs and Hungarians").
From September 1940 until the end of 1941 he worked in the university library as a trainee. From 1942 he was a trainee in the Department of Historical Research within the Pál Teleki Scientific Institute, where he later became a lecturer. From 1945 to 1949 he was the Head of the Department of Ethnology at the Institute.
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