Joseph Szinnyei, Jr.

* Bratislava, May 26, 1857 – Budapest, April 14, 1943 / linguist, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1896) ; ; Son of the great bibliographer, József Szinnyei (Komárom), brother of the literary historian Ferenc Szinnyei. He obtained his doctorate and teaching degree from the University of Budapest in 1878. In 1879–1880 he was on a study trip to Finland with a state scholarship. After returning home, he was the editor of the Ország-Világ newspaper for a year and a half, a library clerk in the National Library of Hungary in 1881, and a private teacher of Finnish language and literature at the University of Budapest in 1883. In 1886, he was a public extraordinary professor of Hungarian linguistics and literary history at the University of Cluj-Napoca, and in 1888, a public ordinary professor. From 1891 he also gave lectures on Finno-Ugric comparative linguistics, from 1893 he was a public full professor of Ural-Altaic linguistics at the University of Budapest, and from 1923–1924 he was the rector of the university. From 1928 he was the chief librarian of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, from 1891–1893 he was the editor of the journal Nyelvtudományi Közlemények. He was the president of the Hungarian Linguistic Society and a member of several, including foreign, scholarly societies. From 1917 he was a member of the upper house. Initially he dealt with literary history, later mainly with the phonology and morphology of Finno-Ugric languages and the history of the Hungarian language. His linguistic works were published in German and Finnish. ; ; His main works: ; Az ezer tó országa, 1882, ; A magyar nyelv eredete, 1883, ; Finnish-Hungarian dictionary, 1884, ; The Hungarian language, 1887, ; Finnish grammar, 1894, ; How did the Hungarian language sound in the time of the Árpáds?, 1895, ; Finnish reader with a collection of syntactic examples, 1895, ; Hungarian language comparison, 1896, ; Hungarian regional dictionary I–II., 1893–1901, ; The origin, language and culture of the Hungarians during the conquest (also in German), 1919, ; The phonetics and morphology of the funeral oration, 1926, The Hungarian language, 1929.