Professor Gyula Káldy-Nagy
Professor Gyula Káldy-Nagy

Summary/Abstract: Gyula Káldy-Nagy was born at Nagydém, a village in Veszprém County, Hungary on July 14, 1927. He finished a prominent secondary school in Sopron, a significant town in Western Hungary. After two years at the Faculty of Law, Péter Pázmány University in Budapest, he started Turkology at the Faculty of Arts of the same university renamed after Loránd Eötvös in 1950. His masters were Professors Gyula Németh and Lajos Fekete, both excelling in their own fields: Németh in Turkology with its linguistic-philological aspects and Fekete in Ottoman-Turkish palaeography and the history of the Ottoman Empire. This latter field attracted Káldy-Nagy’s attention so much that he dedicated his whole life to the investigation of the past of this world empire, and within this mainly the Ottoman rule in Hungary.

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