Maróth Miklós

MARÓTH MIKLÓS

director, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

RESEARCH AREA

Initially, Prof. Maróth was researching the relationship between antique Greek culture and literature and ancient Near Eastern (Hittite, Ugaritic) epic literatures. His interest later shifted towards the scientific history of the Islamic world, he was examining the impact of Greek geographic literature on Arabic writers, especially Ptolemy’s influence on al-Khwarizmi’s world map. Later yet, he was occupied with Greek and Arabic logic and philosophy in the broader sense. Recently, his interests extended towards the subjects of practical philosophy, especially political philosophy.

Within this subject, he’s most interested in rhetorics and rhetorical argumentation, as well as in the polemics between Muslim religious scholars who wielded rhetorical arguments and philosophers who relied on logical argumentation.

EDUCATION

1970: Doctoral dissertation: „Közép-Ázsia al-Khwarizmi Ptolemaios átdolgozásában”
1970: Master’s degree at ELTE, Department of Humanities: History of the antique world (Assyriology)
1967: Master’s degree at ELTE, Department of Humanities: Certified teaching degree in Greek and Latin, Oriental studies with an Arabic specialization
1957–1961: Benedictine High School of Pannonhalma

ACADEMIC DEGREES AT THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

1988: Doctorate in Linguistics: „Az arabok és a görög tudományelmélet”
1974: Candidacy in Linguistics: „Görög logika Keleten”

GRANTS

1973–1974: one academic year at the University of Vienna
1964–1965: one academic year at the University of Baghdad

WORK ABROAD

1999: one year at the University of Cambridge
1986: one year at Harvard University, Boston
1978: one year at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Leningrad)

JOBS HELD

2002–: director of the Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies
1992–2013: professor of Arabic and classical philology at the PPKE Department of Humanities
1970–: Research Centre for Ancient Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1967–1970: Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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