Questions of the Kazakh-Turkic history in the works of Istvan Mandoka

Abstract

The article is devoted to a brief review of the scientific activity of the outstanding Hungarian scientist, Turkologist, pioneer of European Kypchak studies. His main scientific interests are Kypchak-Turkic philology, the ancient history of the Magyars, ethnography and ethnic history of the Kuns (Kipchaks of Hungary), Kazakh-Kun parallels of language and ethnography. He has published more than forty scientific articles in Hungarian, German, French, Kazakh and other languages. The article deals with the works and main directions of Konyr's scientific research. The contribution of Istvan Konyr Mandoka to Turkology and Kypchak studies in particular is also analyzed.