Bela Sulan

* Rozsnyó, April 21, 1916 – † Budapest, August 26, 1968 / linguist, university professor ; ; He graduated from the gymnasium of his hometown. He completed his university studies in Prague and Budapest. First he was a high school teacher, then a colleague of the MNM, then of the East European Scientific Institute. In 1950, he was a researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and an appointed lecturer at the universities of Budapest and Debrecen. In 1951, he was the secretary of the First Department of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and from 1952 to 1958, he was the head of the university and higher education departments in the Ministry of Education. From 1958 to 1963 he was a professor at the Institute of Slavic Philology of the University of Debrecen, and from 1959 to 1963 he was also the rector of the Kossuth Lajos University of Debrecen. From November 1966 he was a senior scientific fellow at the National Society of Hungarian Studies. He was primarily concerned with grammatical, Hungarian dialectological and various theoretical and methodological issues. With his word-historical and etymological research he contributed to the exploration of Hungarian-Slavic linguistic relations, and more specifically the Hungarian elements of the Czech vocabulary. He edited: Linguistic Studies and Languages (Bp., 1962), Slavica (the Slavic yearbook of the University of Debrecen, I–V., 1961-1965). ; ; His main works: ; Economically relevant place names in the Rozsnyó border, 1943, ; Aspects for the study of i-zés, 1951, ; Towards a new Czech–Hungarian dictionary (Magyar Nyelvőr), 1954, ; From the Hungarian elements of the Czech vocabulary (Magyar Nyelv), 1956, ; On the question of word borrowing (Hungarian Nyelv), 1961, ; Notes on the subject and division of grammar (In: Nyelvtani tanlúmik), 1961, ; Notes on semantics, 1961, ; Additions to the study of the vocabulary of slang – especially Central European slang – 1961, ; On some questions of bilingualism. Based on the lessons of Hungarian–Slavic vocabulary interactions, 1963, ; The oldest Hungarian loanwords in the Polish vocabulary (Magyar Nyelv), 1964.