Badiny Jos Ferenc

* Gács, June 3, 1909 – † Budapest, March 10, 2007 / military officer, self-taught historian, linguist, Sumerologist ; ; He spent his childhood in his native village and nearby Losonc, studied at the Balassagyarmat gymnasium, then received artillery officer and pilot training at the Ludovika Academy. From 1940 he was a student at the Budapest University of Technology. After World War II, he left Hungary and settled in Argentina in 1946. Here he began to deal with the Sumerian language and the issue of the Sumerian-Hungarian language relationship, which has not been scientifically proven. In Rome, he studied with the Jesuit theologian and Sumerologist Anton Deimel (1865–1954) and became acquainted with ancient cuneiform writing. Subsequently, in 1966, he founded the Department of Sumerology at the Jesuit University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. In numerous works written in English and Hungarian and in lectures given at international conferences, he dealt with the issue of Sumerian-Hungarian linguistic kinship. Later, breaking with the Vatican, which he considered “Judaist”, he founded the Hungarian Church and launched his journal, in which he expressed his messianic ideas and doubts about the Finno-Ugric linguistic kinship. “Official science” generally rejects his teaching, considering it dilettantism, but the Piarist theologian István Jelenits (1932–) also expressed a critical opinion. After the death of his wife, he moved back to Hungary in the 1990s, and in 1997 he founded the Department of Ancient, Near Eastern and Sumerian Studies at the King Lajos Nagy Private University of Miskolc, which was never officially registered as a higher education institution, which he headed until his death. He was laid to rest in the Farkasrét Cemetery in Budapest. His bust stands in his homeland, Losonc, where the Palóc Society regularly commemorates him. ; ; His main works: ; Ethnographic Map of Turanians, Uralo-Altaians, 1966, ; Signos Cuneiformes, 1966, ; The Found Hungarian Prehistoric History, 1967, ; The Evidence of Sumerian-Hungarian Language Identity, 1968, ; From Chaldea to Ister-gamig I-III., 1997, ; King Jesus – The Parthian Prince, 1998; The Fateful Founding of the State, 2000.