Gyula Király (historian)
Dr. Gyula Király was a literary historian, who lived and worked in Budapest, Hungary.Biography
Király was born in Santăul Mic, a village in northwestern Romania, along the border with Hungary. He studied at the high school of the University of Debrecen, Hungary, then at the Gojdu High School in Oradea, Romania. He graduated from the Leningrad State University's Philology Department, became a Ph.D. candidate in literary sciences. From 1953-1960 he was an assistant professor, and from 1953-60 an adjunct lecturer in the Russian Philology Department of the Debrecen Kossuth Lajos University in Budapest. From 1960-64 he did post-doctoral studies at the Moscow Lomonosov University. From 1964-68 he was adjunct lecturer, from 1969-92 associate professor and in 1993 honorary professor in the Department of Russian Philology of Eötvös Loránd University In 1975-76 he was on scholarship at the Gorky Institute of World Literature. in Moscow.
He was the Hungarian representative of the International Dostoevsky Society from 1977-1986 and its vice-director from 1983–89, then honorary board member from 1990. From 1965-1995 member of the editorial board of Filológiai Közlöny. He was an expert on 19th and 20th century Russian classic literature, mainly Dostoevsky's oeuvre, literature, and genre theory. His main achievements lie in examining the typology of the Russian novel and in researching the poetics and theory of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels. He was one of the Hungarian structuralists who worked on Dostoevsky novels.Career
- 1949-1953 studies at the Leningrad State University Arts Faculty
- 1953-1960 assistant lecturer at Debrecen Kossuth Lajos University Faculty of Russian Philology
- 1960-1964 postgraduate studies at the Moscow Lomonosov University
- 1964-1970 senior lecturer at the ELTE Eötvös Loránd University Russian Faculty
- 1969 PhD in Literary Sciences
- 1970-2001 professor at the ELTE Eötvös József Collegium Russistic-Poetic Workshop
- 1970-1993 associate professor at ELTE BTK Russian Faculty
- 1993 honorary associate professor at ELTE BTK
- 1993-1996 lecturing professor and scientific advisor at ELTE BTK Eastern, Slavic and Baltic Philology Department
- 1996 lecturing professor at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary BTK World and Comparative Literature Department
Grants
- 1960-1964 MTA-aspirantúra Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Lomonosov University
- 1975-1976 Keldis-grant, Institute of World Literature, Moscow
- 1985 MTA Hungarian Academy of Sciences research grant, Jagellonian University, Slavic Institute, Cracow, Poland
Books
- Az orosz irodalom története a XIX. század második felében, Karancsy László – Király Gyula, Budapest, 1960. 336 p.
- Élmények és gondolatok. Szovjet esszék, válogatás, jegyzetek Király Gyula, Európa Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 1965. 275p.
- Poetika. Trudi russkih i sovetskih poetičeskih skol, válogatás, jegyzetek Király Gyula - Kovács Árpád, Tankönyvkiadó, Budapest, 1982. 800 p.
- Dosztojevszkij és az orosz próza. Műfajpoétikai tanulmányok, Akadémia Kiadó, Budapest, 1983. 513p.
Legacy
Király’s professional library will be donated to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences it will be open to researchers.
