A professor of history at the University of Debrecen received recognition from Transylvania

The Transylvanian Museum Association elected Klára Papp, a professor at the Institute of History of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Debrecen, at its recent general assembly. Of the Hungarian experts, Klára Papp is the first historian to receive this honor.

At the general meeting held on March 26 in the ceremonial hall of the Protestant Theological Institute in Cluj-Napoca, the new president was elected Enikő Bitay, an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, professor at Sapientia Hungarian University in Transylvania (EME).

The election of honorary members was also on the agenda of the general meeting. According to the statutes of the association, the honorary members are those Hungarian and foreign people who are recognized in the domestic and foreign professional circles and who show outstanding scientific, literary, artistic, and public cultural achievements, and who deserve the appreciation of the Hungarian society in Romania. Its board elects in this capacity and the decision is confirmed by the general meeting.

Klára Papp, a professor at the Institute of History of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Debrecen, is the first Hungarian historian to be elected by the EME as one of its honorary members.

With recognition, Klára Papp, the leader of the doctoral program in history, can be among such excellent historians as Samu Benkő, Elek Csetri, Ákos Egyed, István Imreh, Zsigmond Jakó, András Kiss, András Magyari

– Gábor Sipos, vice-president of the association.

In the framework of the event, it was announced that the prestigious award, the József Teleki Award, was awarded to the honorary doctor of the University of Debrecen, professor of linguistics János Péntek.

At the general meeting, the Book of the Year 2021 award was given to Emőke Gálfi for her book “Gyulafehérvár and its manor in the second half of the 16th century”, and Zsolt Bogdándi was elected secretary-general of EME. Both are researchers of the association and are both members of the International Inter-Regional Research Center for Social History and Ethnography of the University of Debrecen.

It was also decided at the general meeting that the research institute of the Transylvanian Museum Association will be named after Zsigmond Jakó in the future.

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