The history of teaching of the Hungarian language and of Hungarian philology at Czech universities

Abstract

The chapter introduces and documents, in as much context as possible, the history of teaching of the Hungarian language and the history of Hungarian philology at Czech universities in Prague and Brno. The article is based mainly on archive sources but also consultations with living contemporaries.

Briefly treated are also some data pertaining to the history of teaching of the Hungarian language at the university in Bratislava and to the history of teaching other Finno-Ugric languages at universities in Prague and Brno.

Keywords

• The Hungarian language
• Hungarian philology
• university in Prague
• university in Brno