Gyula Király (historian)
Hungarian literary historian (1927-2011)
Gyula Király (January 26, 1927 – January 17, 2011) was a literary historian who lived and worked in Budapest, Hungary.
Biography
Király was born in Santăul Mic (Kisszántó), a village in northwestern Romania, along the border with Hungary. He attended high school at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, then at the Gojdu High School in Oradea, Romania. He graduated from the Leningrad State University's Philology Department (1953). From 1953 to 1960 he was an assistant professor, and from 1953 to 1960 an adjunct lecturer in the Russian Philology Department of the Debrecen Kossuth Lajos University (KLTE ) in Budapest. From 1960 to 1964 he did post-doctoral studies at the Moscow Lomonosov University. From 1964 to 1968 he was adjunct lecturer, from 1969 to 1992 associate professor, and in 1993 honorary professor in the Department of Russian Philology of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). In 1975-76 he was on scholarship at the Gorky Institute of World Literature.
Career
1949-1953 studies at the Leningrad State (Zhdanov) University Arts Faculty
1953-1960 assistant lecturer at Debrecen Kossuth Lajos University Faculty of Russian Philology
1960-1964 postgraduate studies at the Moscow Lomonosov University
1964-1970 senior lecturer at the ELTE Eötvös Loránd University Russian Faculty
1969 PhD in Literary Sciences
1970-2001 professor at the ELTE Eötvös József Collegium Russistic-Poetic Workshop
1970-1993 associate professor at ELTE BTK Russian Faculty
1993 honorary associate professor at ELTE BTK
1993-1996 lecturing professor and scientific advisor at ELTE BTK Eastern, Slavic and Baltic Philology Department
1996 lecturing professor at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary BTK World and Comparative Literature Department
Grants
1960-1964 MTA-aspirantúra Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Lomonosov University
1975-1976 Keldis-grant, Institute of World Literature (Gorky), Moscow
1985 MTA Hungarian Academy of Sciences research grant, Jagellonian University, Slavic Institute, Cracow, Poland
Books
Az orosz irodalom története a XIX. század második felében (1856-1900), Karancsy László – Király Gyula, Budapest, 1960. 336 p.
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