MESAROSH  Dyula

MESAROSH Dyula (28.3.1883–1957), ethnographer, orientalist, folklorist. Doctor of Turkic-Tatar Philology (1909). His research is associated with the study of folklore, languages, and ethnography of the peoples of the Ural-Volga region, including the Bashkirs. M. studied the problems of ethnogenetic interrelations of Bashkirs and Hungarians. In 1906–08, he made folklore and ethnographic expeditions to the Volga region, studied the language, folklore, and ethnography of the Tatars and Chuvash. In 1909, he stayed in Bashkiria in order to study the language, folklore, and the tangible culture of the South-Eastern and Trans-Ural Bashkirs; the collected materials (225 items and 86 photos), which were systematized and labeled in 1958–59 and were widely used by ethnographers of Bashkortostan, are stored in the Hungarian Ethnographic Museum.