Laszlo Rasonyi

* Liptószentmiklós, January 22, 1899 – † Budapest, May 4, 1984 / linguist, Turkologist ; ; He earned a teaching degree in Hungarian history from the Pázmány Péter University in Budapest in 1921, and then a doctorate in Turkish philology. He worked at the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1922 to 1935, and later moved to Ankara, where he was a lecturer at the university there until 1941. During World War II, he taught at the university in Kolozsvár, was a member of the Balkan Institute from 1947 to 1949, and then returned to the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he worked as the head of the newly established Oriental Collection from 1951 to 1962. He retired in 1962, but between 1963 and 1968 he taught again as a visiting professor at Ankara University. His research focused on Hungarian and Turkish names, the history and literature of the Turkish peoples, and the ethnic and linguistic problems of Hungarian prehistory. ; ; His main works: ; Turkish Linguistics, 1960, ; Russian Relations of Hungarian Eastern Studies, 1962, ; Bridges on the Danube. The Ancient Turkish Peoples on the Danube, 1981, ; Onomasticon Turcium. Turkic Personal Names as collected by László Rásonyi, 2007.