Personal Data:
Pilisvörösvár, May 1, 1942.
Studies
1966 ? Teacher for German and Hungarian Languages Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, MA
1968- PhD degree with summa cum ?German dialect spoken in the area of the Pilis-mountain?
1971-ben PhD: ?The Dialects spoken in the area of the Plain of Moson?
1977-78- Humboldt- Scholarship in Marburg, Germany.
Work experience
1966- 1981- Principal of the Primary and Secondary School of the State Ballet Institute
Since 1968 Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, working in different positions as lecturer, associate professor, professor at the Faculty of German Language, Literature and Linguistics
1981- Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, head of the Faculty of German Language, Literature and Linguistics and Romanology, professor for the history of German language and dialects
1981-89 guest lecturer in Augsburg and Munich, Germany
1984- 1987 Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, deputy-dean in charge of economical and international issues, President of the Board of Reconstruction and Employment
1987. Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Deputy Rector
1989 Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Culture and Education, in charge of supervising higher education and science
1990 Ministry of Culture and Education, Associate State Secretary
1991 titular State Secretary in charge of preparing the Act on National and Ethnic Minority Rights, coordinating issues related to national and ethnic minorities
1992 Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, director of the German Institute
1992 Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, dean
Since 1993 Member and President of the PhD Board of the University
1996 Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, director of the German Institute, dean
1994 director of the German Institute, President of the Board in charge of the ?Trefort kert? Reconstruction Committee
Since August 1, 2000. managing the reconstruction of the ?Trefort kert? building of the university
August 1, 2001. Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, director of the German Institute, dean
Since 2000 :
Member of the Scientific Board for Higher Education;
As member of the Hungarian Rectors? Conference in charge of coordinating the implementation of the Bologna Process in Hungary,
Professional leader of the consortium, that was established to implement the necessary changes within the higher education system.
Head of the Dean?s Board
Member of the Strategic Research Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Member of the Scientific Board of the Centre for Minority Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Member of the Scientific Board and Council of the Budapest Europe Institute Foundation and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Publications, research
1977- Regional Language Atlas, German dialects in Western-Hungary, Akadémia Publisher
German Dialects in Hungary: studies, textbooks, 8 books about the German dialects, tradition, 6 books about the crafts of the German minority in Hungary, 21 books about the German ethnography in Hungary and 8 books the Archives of the Germans in Hungary
Publishing articles in several foreign magazines related to German minority research in Hungary.
Since 1984 coordinating the work: ?German Language Atlas and Dictionary of Dialects in Hungary?
1985-1989 Secretary of the Committee for Language Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1984 Member of the German Ethnographical Association, Member of the Hungarian Language Science Society, the Hungarian Ethnographical Society and the German Ethnographical Society
1997?2004 Member of the Linguistic, philological and oriental professional Board
Awards
Honorary Member of the Hungarian Ethnographical Society
Austrian Order of Merit for Science and Culture, 1990
Baden-Württenberg Cultural Award, 1984
GRAND CROSS ORDER OF MERIT of Germany
Pro Urbe Budapest -2002
Herder Award -2003
KNIGHT?S CROSS ORDER OF MERIT OF THE REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY 2002
Award for Minorities, 2004
