Baltistikos įvadas vengrų kalba

INTRODUCTION TO BALTICS IN HUNGARY LANGUAGE 1968 m. Autumn At an international Slavist congress in Prague, Kostas Korsakas introduced the author of these lines to a young Hungarian su philologist who, having never seen Lithuanian, already spoke Lithuanian. Years passed. About the Hungarian philologist Endre Boitará (Boitara) our society heard more and more. ir Ne once he visited Lithuania, found a large group of friends here, made friends su United States of America. In Hungary, the po books of Lithuanian jo writers began to appear one after the other. We were especially pleased 1970 m. after seeing the famous Budapest publisher’s edition of Kristijonas Donelaitis’ “Metai” (“Evszakok”- ). Eur6pa Kėnyvkiadė, 1970), which E. Boytar translated together with the poet Dezso (Dežis) Tandori. The translation was accompanied by an article by E. Bojtár, which introduced the Hungarian readers to our great poet for the first time in more su detail. Among other things, together with D. Tandoras, E. Bojtaras translated Justinas Marcinkevičius’ drama trilogy. Lithuanian literature is given a lot of attention in Hungarian philologist’s studies on Eastern European avant-garde literature, Romanticism. The practice of independent study of the Lithuanian language was beautifully summarized by E. Bojtaras in a well-methodically prepared textbook of the Lithuanian language („Kevės szoval litvanul“, Tankėonyvkiadėo, Budapest, 1985). It is probably not necessary to remind you that a book of this kind was also published for the first time in Hungary. This book, we could say, was already a kind of literary look at linguistics. E. Bojtar also learned well the Latvian language. He studied the history, culture, mythology and folklore of the Baltic peoples. All these studies were crowned with the enviably beautifully published new book by E. Bojtar – „Introduction to Baltic Studies“ („Bevezetės a baltisztikaba. A balti kultūra a rėgisėgben- “, Osiris Kiadė, Budapest, 1997). It is a large work (316 pages), the ambition of which is probably sufficiently demonstrated by the list of used literature — about a thousand books and articles written in different languages. Especially popular among E. Bojtar researchers of the Baltic past are: J. Balys, H. Biezajis (Biezais), A. Brūckneris, K. Būga, J. Endzelynas, M. Gimbutienė, A. J. Greimas, E. Gudavičius, Viač. Ivanovas, Z. Ivinskis, J. Kabelka, G. Labuda, H. Lowmianskis, P. Šmitas, V. Toporovas, M. Vasmeris, Z. Zinkevičius. In individual chapters of the book the author discusses in detail the history of the Balts and their tribes, describes their languages and dialects, and devotes a lot of space to mythology (in this respect E. Bojtar’s work is perhaps the most different from all previously published books of this kind). Turning through the pages of E. Bojtar’s book, the thought comes to mind that this book was written not only by a diligent scholar, but also by a sincere friend of the Baltic peoples: it is not for nothing that it begins with a map of Lithuania in the time of Vytautas the Great, and its cover is decorated with a jumping ancient Baltic rider (Ramutė Jasudytė tapestry). I am pleased that the territory of Baltic studies is expanding, but when will we have a Lithuanian introduction to Finno-Ugric studies? Algirdas Sabaliauskas 259