Curriculum Vitae
Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. György Hazai
1950-54 Bachelor of Science, University of Budapest
1958 Doctor of Philosophy, University of Budapest
1966 Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1956-57 Visiting Lecturer, University of Sofia
1958-62 Research Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1963-82 Visiting Associate to Full Professor, Humboldt University (Berlin)
1963-74 Head of the Turfan Research Group, German Academy of Sciences
1984-90 Research Professor and Publishing Director of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1984-90 Publishing Director of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1992-99 Professor and Head of the Department of Turkish Studies, University of Cyprus
2000- Research Professor and Publishing Director of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2000-2003 Founding Rector of the Andrássy University (Budapest)
- Author of books, studies, and reviews in various, mainly turkological subjects
- Editor, co-editormember in the advisory board or of the following journals and series:
- Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungariae (Budapest)
- Archivum Ottomanicum (Wiesbaden)
- Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica (Budapest)
- Cahiers d’Etudes sur la Mediterranée Orientale et le Monde Turco-Iranien (Paris)
- Journal of Turkish Studies, Türklük Bilgisi Araştirmalari (Cambridge, USA)
- Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (Berlin)
- Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker (Freiburg Br.)
- Turkologischer Anzeiger/Turkology Annual (Vienna)
- Türk Dilleri Araştirmalari (Ankara)
- Zeitschrift für Balkanologie (Berlin-Wiesbaden)
1969- President of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference
1973-2000 Vice-President of the International Committee of Ottoman and Pre-Ottoman Studies
1973-1991 Secretary of the International Union of Oriental and Asian Studies
1991- Secretary General of the International Union of Oriental and Asian Studies
1992-1996 President of the Subject Group of Oriental Studies, Academia European
1997 President of the 35th International Congress of Asian and North-African Studies
1998-2000 Member of the International Organizing Committee of the 36th ICANAS
2000-2004 Member of the International Organizing Committee of the 37th ICANAS
1957 Corresponding member of the Turkish Linguistic Society (Türk Dil Kurumu, Ankara)
1978 Corresponding member of the Societé Finno-Ougrienne (Helsinki)
1979 Corresponding member of the Turkish Historical Society (Türk Tarih Kurumu, Ankara)
1982 Honorary member of the Turkish Linguistic Society (Türk Dil Kurumu, Ankara)
1982 Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1988 Honorary professor of the University of Budapest
1990 Member of the Academia European (London)
1991 Doctor honoris causa of the University of Ankara
1995 Ordinary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1997 Honorary President of the Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Association
1999 Professor emeritus of the University of Cyprus
2001 Corresponding member of the Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft (München)
2001 Honorary member of the American Oriental Society
2001 Honorary Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences
2002 Andrássy Prize
2003 Honorary President of the House of Nations
2004 Awarded by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany (“das Große Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland”)
2005 Honorary Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Eastern Research Institute
2005 Awarded by the President of the Hungarian Republic (A Magyar Köztársaság Érdemrend Középkeresztje)
2006 Member of the Vámbéry Association / Vámbéry Scientific College
2007 Honorary Member of the Societas Uralo-Altaica (Gottingen)
2007 Vambery Prize
2007 Certificate of acknowledgment for services rendered to the Republic of Turkey awarded by the Ministery of Foreign Affaires of Turkey
2007 Elected President of the International Union of Oriental and Asian Studies
2010 Honorary Member of the Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft
2011 Bestowed the „Commendeur de l’Orde de Merite“, state decoration of the Republic of France
2013 Doctor honoris causa of the University of Istanbul
2014 Decoration of the Order of the Republic of Turkey and the Order of Merit
