„WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN LOST? GOD KNOWS” – THE LETTER OF FERENC FÜLÖP TO BÉLA GUNDA. SÂNGEORGIU DE PĂDURE, 17.02.1947

Abstract

Author's coordinates: Néprajztudományi Intézet Adattára, Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4

Email: boldogbernad.istvan@gmail.com

As an university professor in Kolozsvár, Béla Gunda built up an extensive Transylvaniannetwork of relationships in the second half of the 1940s, of which his preserved correspondence is an excellent source. One of the unique pieces is a letter of Ferenc Fülöp, dean from Erdőszentgyörgy, from 1947, to which he enclosed a founded manuscript, dated 1715 in Crimea. In this paper, I will first outline the context of the letters, and then I will take a closer look at the letters themselves, showing that they are linked to a discourse that has been making waves in Hungarian scholarship for several centuries. Finally, I will publish both the letter and its annex.

Keywords: Béla Gunda, correspondence, Mátyás László de Altorja, Tartar captivity, Hungariansin Crimea, Sámuel Turkoly.

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