Winner of the 2020 Lajos Kiss Prize: Dr János Bárth
Keywords:
onomasticians, Kiss Lajos Prize, János Bárth, Hungarian place names, geolinguistics
Abstract
Winner of the 2020 Lajos Kiss Prize: Dr János Bárth
The Lajos Kiss Prize, awarded every two or three years since 2006, is considered to be a highly prestigious award for young onomasticians. The 2020 winner of the prize is Dr János Bárth, senior lecturer at the Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He was given this award for his contribution to Hungarian Historical Onomastics, especially for his research on place names.
