Journal of Eurasian Studies - EPA

April‐June 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 2.
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matter in the Geonomy Scientific Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Scince (with Béla
Lukács). He wrote the first book in Hungary about planetary science From Crystals to Planetary
Bodies (also he was the first candidate of earth sciences in topics planetology). He built with
colleagues on the Eötvös University the Hungarian University Surveyor (Hunveyor)
experimental space probe model for teachers for training purposes and development of new
constructions in measuring technologies.
HORVÁTH, Izabella
Holds two Bachelor degrees — anthropology, and medieval art history — and a Master degree
— linguistics, from the University of Illinois. She has been a presenter at international scholarly
forums since 1989 in the United States, Hungary, Austria, Germany and China. She has
contributed over 40 articles in Hungarian, English Turkish, Chinese, Russian, and Uygur journals,
and lexicon volumes. Ms. Horváth is the author of two books: The Journey of the Griffins from
Inner Asia to the Carpathian Basin (bilingual, Hungarian‐English, 1992) and The earliest history
of the Huns (bilingual, Hungarian‐Chinese, 2000) which was coauthored with her husband,
Yaxiong Du, a Chinese ethnomusicologist. This is her 10 th year in China where she does field
work and gives lectures at various Chinese universities on the results of her research. She is the
member of the Central Eurasian Studies Society based in Harvard University. At present Ms.
Horváth is Visiting Professor at the Northwest Cultures Study Center, Department of
Ethnomusicology, Xian Conservatory of Music, Xian, PRC.
MARÁCZ, László
Born in 1960 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Received his degree from the University of
Groningen. Between 1984 and 1990 he was with the University of Groningen as assistant
professor. Between 1990 and 1992 as a Niels Stensen scholar he was with MTI, MTA and CNRS as
a guest researcher. Since 1992 Mr. Marácz is lecturer of the East‐European Institute of the
University of Amsterdam. His areas of research cover general syntax, Hungarian grammar, the
relationship of Hungarians and the West. Author of numerous scientific publications and books.
MÁTÉ, Zsuzsanna
Works as habilitation professor at the University of Szeged (Juhász Gyula Teacher Training
Faculty), she teaches Hungarian literature and aesthetics. Ms. Máté is full member of the doctoral
PhD‐system in philosophy of Málnási Bartók György at the University of Szeged. She received a
PhD‐degree in Philosophy: ʺThe Absolute in the philosophy of art in the first half of our centuryʺ,
at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1996); Habilitation: ʺSándor Sík – the author, the literary
scientist and the aestheticianʺ at the University of Debrecen (2006). Her main field of research are:
Hungarian history of aesthetics and other comparative questions of aesthetics. Author of several
books.
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