Seven internationally renowned honorary doctors of the University of Pécs have been inaugurated at the Ceremonial Senate Meeting on 4 November at the dr. Halasy-Nagy Lecture Hall. They are prominent, respected professors, who have been actively working in close cooperation with the University of Pécs. Through their professional achievements on their respective fields as well as in the joint research projects with the faculties of the University they have greatly benefited the University of Pécs as well as Hungarian science. They all have given their inaugural adresses at the repective promoting faculties, which they have summarized at the Ceremonial Senate Meeting.
Dmitri Anatolyevich Funk is an ethnographer, cultural anthropologist, at the present time he is the director of the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a prominent, determinant person of the Russian ethnographical life who, due to his career as a scientist and as an institution manager, was a motor of the renewal of Russian researches and their involvement in the mainstream of the international researches. Dmitri Anatolyevich Funk professor has an outstanding role in the reformation of the Russian Siberian researches and of ethnography, the life of the cultural anthropological institutions in general. He has been in close relationship with the Hungarian scientific life for decades. His connections with the Department of Ethnography – Cultural Anthropology of the University of Pécs are especially fruitful. In the spring of 2009, he participated in the department’s Marie Curie tender (“From Hungarian Ethnography to European Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology”), within the framework of which he held 2 courses: “Native folks of South-Siberia: ethnohistory, culture and dynamics of changes” and “Introduction to the Turkish epic tradition”. Dmitri Anatolyevich Funk plays the role of a bridge between the national, within it that of Pécs, and the Russian ethnography: he regularly appears in publications in Hungarian and he publishes Hungarian publications in Russian language.
