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Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, Professor Emeritus of Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (Budapest, Hungary) and Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana), regular member of Magyar Tudományos Akadémia [Hungarian Academy of Sciences], Academia Europaea (London), International Comparative Literature Association, and Nemzetközi Magyarságtudományi Társaság [International Association for Hungarian Studies], editor-in-chief of the periodical publication Hungarian Studies, recipient of Széchenyi Prize, and a scholar of international stature, passed away at the age of 74. His passing is a sad and tremendous loss to the entire Hungarian academic community. The lifework of Mihály Szegedy-Maszák is not only incomparably extensive: it covers an exceptionally long and exciting time period and several academic fi elds, which makes it particularly signifi cant in our age. He exerted a unique infl uence on Hungarian literary interpretation of the past 50 years through his groundbreaking literary-history monographs, his studies on theory and methodology, and his related textbooks. Well before his time and the change of the political regime in Hungary, he pioneered in re-evaluating the offi cially prescribed and forcibly imposed literary canons and in debunking and deconstructing the ideological concept of literature that narrows interpretation possibilities, thus facilitating the acceptance of formerly unjustly effaced authors, such as Zsigmond Kemény, Dezső Kosztolányi, Sándor Márai, and Géza Ottlik. He prompted not just one but at least two outstanding shifts in the approaches and attitudes prevalent in Hungarian literary scholarship. First, he became a leading voice through propagating and further developing the consequences of the text-centered reading techniques so popular in the 1970’s, and then he was also instrumental in disseminating the hermeneutical approach following the introduction of the reading techniques resulting from Ricoeur’s “linguistic turn.” The decisive part Mihály Szegedy-Maszák played in the history of literary scholarship was exceptional mainly because he fi lled it only with the gravity of his mental and intellectual achievement. With the help of his bold and consistent professional commitment, he effi ciently counterweighed the one-sided features of HStud 30 (2016)2, 263–266 DOI: 10.1556/044.2016.30.2.11

Humanities in Hungary lose a benchmark of a scholar in memoriam Mihály Szegedy-Maszák