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Ildikó P. Varga (1977) is a university lecturer at the Department of Hungarian Literary Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University. Graduated in 1999 from the same institution, where she studied Hungarian and Finnish language and literature. Obtained her Master's degree in Protestant church history in 2001, received her PhD degree in 2009. In her doctoral dissertation she examined the reception of Hungarian translations of the Finnish epic, Kalevala. Her main field of research is the theory and history of translation, Hungarian-Finnish cultural relations between 1880 and 1945. She has published a number of studies on these topics. In 2017 she published a volume, which contains six hundred annotated letters of the second Kalevala-translator Béla Vikár, highlighting the diversity of Hungarian-Finnish cultural relations.
With a visiting scholarship from the Center for International Mobility (now: EDUFI) in Finland she has had the opportunity to do archival research in Helsinki several times. She also taught at the Hungarian Department of the University of Helsinki for half a year. She was on several occasions also a scholarship holder of the Domus Hungarica launched by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Email: ildiko.varga@ubbcluj.ro
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Tamás Fejér (1977), historian, research fellow at the Zsigmond Jakó Research Institute of the Transylvanian Museum Society. In 1999 he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the Babeș-Bolyai University, he obtained in 2000 a Master's degree from the same faculty, and in 2011 a PhD degree from the Faculty of Reformed Theology of the BBU. Since 2018, he is the editor of the Transylvanian Historical Data (Erdélyi Történelmi Adatok) series of source editions published by the Transylvanian Museum Society.
Research fields: editing and publishing early modern Transylvanian historical sources, the history of administration and central government institutions in the 16th century, with particular regard to the personnel and functioning of the princely chancellery.
Some of his important works: Az erdélyi fejedelmek királyi könyvei. I. 1569–1602. I/1. János Zsigmond királyi könyve 1569–1570. – I/2. Báthory Kristóf királyi könyve 1580–1581. – I/3. Báthory Zsigmond királyi könyvei 1582–1602. (Erdélyi Történelmi Adatok VII. 1–3. Szerk. Jakó Zsigmond.) Mutatókkal és jegyzetekkel regesztákban közzéteszi Fejér Tamás – Rácz Etelka – Szász Anikó. Kolozsvár, 2003–2005.
Email: fejertamas77 @yahoo.com
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Mark Lang (1994) is an associate lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of Babeș–Bolyai University and at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca. He completed his BA in Philosophy in 2013 and obtained an MA in Critical Theory and Multicultural Studies in 2018. Until 2025 he was a doctoral candidate at the Doctoral School of Philosophy of Babeș–Bolyai University.
His doctoral dissertation examined the intellectual-historical connections between the thought of Søren Kierkegaard and the authors of German Idealism.
His main research interests include the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard, classical German philosophy, and twentieth-century theories of art. He has published several studies on these topics in edited volumes and in the journal Erdélyi Múzeum.
Contact: langmark30 @gmail.com
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Lehel Peti (1981) graduated in 2004 from Babeş–Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), specializating in Ethnography and Hungarian language and literature. He also obtained his MA degree at the Hungarian Department of Ethnography and Anthropology and was awarded the PhD-degree in 2010. At present he is a lecturer at Babeş–Bolyai University, Hungarian Institute of Linguistics and Ethnography-Anthropology, and researcher at The Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities. Several of his publications focus on the popular religion of the Moldavian Csángós, the role of modernization-induced social transformations, and the ethnic relations and economic strategies of various communities in Romania.
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Árpád Töhötöm SZABÓ is Associate Professor, PhD, at the Hungarian Institute of Linguistics and Ethnography-Anthropology, Department of Hungarian Ethnography and Anthropology. PhD Studies: University of Debrecen, 2001–2008, MA and BA studies: Babeş–Bolyai University, Cluj, Faculty of Letters, socio-linguistics, 1999-2000 and Hungarian language and literature and ethnography, 1995-1999.
Research interests / Teaching areas: ethnography of rural economy, economic anthropology, peasant studies, relations between ethnicity and economy, changes of rurality, anthropology of socialism and postsocialism.
He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses related to his research and areas of interest. He has published three books in Hungarian, and his studies have been published in Hungarian, English, and Romanian, both in Romania and abroad.
E-mail: arpad.szabo@ubbcluj.ro
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Kinga Papp (1983) is a researcher at the Zsigmond Jakó Research Institute of the Transylvanian Museum Society. In 2006 she graduated from the Faculty of Letters of the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, with a degree in Latin-Hungarian Studies. In 2007 she obtained her Master's degree in Literature and Society from the same university. Between 2009-2011 she was a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Hungarian Studies of the UBB, and obtained her PhD degree in 2012. Her research interests include early Hungarian literature; she focuses especially on the use of writing, self-representation and private correspondence of Transylvanian noblemen in the Early Modern period; early modern women’s writing habits, the history of writing and reading in the Early Modern period, subjects on which she has published several papers and a book (Tollforgató Kálnokiak, EME, Kolozsvár, 2015). Her professional results are mostly based on archival research in Transylvania and Hungary. Since 2014, she has been the editorial secretary of the EME publishing house and editor of several volumes.
Email: papp.kinga@eme.ro
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