Residence Hungary Citizenship Zebegeny | Nationality Hungarian Name Laszlo Antal | |
Born 25 June 1930
Szob, Hungary ( 1930-06-25 ) Died January 1993 (1993-02) (aged 62)
USA/Germany Fields Linguistics
Structural linguistics Institutions Department of General Linguistics, ELTE, Budapest | ||
László Antal (Szob, Hungary, 25 June 1930 – Washington, January 1993) was a Hungarian linguist, structuralist, Doctor of Science (1981), and Professor of Linguistics. He was considered the sole representative of structural linguistics in America in Hungary. He adapted American structuralism to the Hungarian language. He was a lone wolf in Hungarian linguistics.
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Life
In 1962 he was awarded a Ford Scholarship to the United States in the academic years of 1964-1965. He was a Visiting Professor in Berlin between 1981 & 1986. He left Hungary first for Germany then for the United States in 1985 when he was appointed to the Head of the General Linguistics Department in ELTE in Budapest. He settled in Manassas, Virginia. He was a Professor in the Foreign Service Institute and an advisor at the Jamestown Foundation. He died of a heart attack in 1993. He spoke several languages, such as English, German, Russian, French, Albanian, Arabic, and Indonesian, fluently.
Selected works
This bibliography contains only the works that were published in English.