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Today, the consensus among linguists is that Hungarian is a member of the Uralic family of languages.
The classification of Hungarian as a Uralic/Finno-Ugric rather than a Turkic language was a matter of impassioned political controversy throughout the 18th and into the 19th centuries. During the latter half of the 19th century, a competing hypothesis proposed a Turkic affinity of Hungarian, or, alternatively, that both the Uralic and the Turkic families formed part of a superfamily of Ural–Altaic languages.[2][bettersourceneeded][3]
The debate came to a head in the 1880s between the two camps,[4] known as the Ugric-Turkic war.[3] One camp proposed that Hungarians were related to Turanians, supported by Arminius Vambery who wrote a book on the topic and was a friend of Budenz. Budenz attacked Vambery's book in a lecture at the Hungarian Academy, and challenged his methods as unscientific. Vambery struck back with his own accusations against his friend.[4] After things settled, the Finno-Ugric hypothesis was concluded the sounder of the two, mainly based on work by Budenz.[2][bettersourceneeded]
Death
Budenz died in Budapest on 15 April 1892, and was buried on 17 April 1892.
Memorials and retrospectives
On 27 May 1963, a memorial plaque was dedicated in his honor at the house where he was born, currently in use as the town hall of the village where he formerly attended school in Rasdorf.[5] The commemorative plaque bears the inscription: "Here stood until 1954 the house in which on 13 June 1836 Joseph Budenz was born. He was a professor at the University of Budapest from 1868 until his death on 15 April 1892, and is the founder of modern Finno-Ugric comparative linguistics. Donated by the Societas Uralo-Altaica on May 23, 1963."[citation needed]
The Budenz Gymnasium in Budapest published a Budenz memorial book in Hungarian in 2002. A "Budenz Day" is held every year at the Finno-Ugrian Seminar of the University of Göttingen.
↑Hack, Johannes (1936). Rübsamen, Dieter (ed.). "Der Sprachforscher Josef Budenz aus Rasdorf, Professor in Budapest". Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter. 28. Fulda: Fuldaer Geschichtsverein: 65–74. as cited in Jenks, Stuart (ed.). "FuldaGbll 1, 1902-35, 1959 – Magazine Stacks". New York: Fordham University.
Décsy, Gyula (1980). Beiträge zur Geschichte einer 1200-jährigen Gemeinde, Historische Festgabe zur 1200-Jahr-Feier[Rasdorf, Contributions to the history of a 1200-year-old municipality, historical commemorative publication on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary.] (in German). Rasdorf: Gemeindevorstand der Gemeinde Rasdorf. p.126ff. OCLC74609704.
Sturm, Erwin (1971). Rasdorf, Geschichte und Kunst[Rasdorf, history and art] (in German). Fulda: Parzeller. p.31ff. OCLC977734689.
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