{"id":584,"date":"2011-11-22T12:22:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T17:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vandfam.net\/dev\/wordpressmu\/college\/?p=584"},"modified":"2011-11-22T12:22:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T17:22:29","slug":"sherwood-wins-international-medal-for-promoting-hungarian-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"Sherwood wins international medal for promoting Hungarian studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/2011\/11\/22\/sherwood-wins-international-medal-for-promoting-hungarian-studies\/\">Peter Sherwood<\/a>, Laszlo Birinyi Sr. Distinguished Professor of Hungarian Language and Culture, was recognized by the International Association for Hungarian Studies (IAHS) with the J\u00e1nos Lotz medal for promoting Hungarian studies abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The IAHS was established in 1977 for Hungarian scholars, both within and outside the country. Its duties include publishing an English-language journal, <em>Hungarian Studies<\/em>, and the multilingual <em>Lymbus<\/em>: resources and documents in Hungarian studies.<\/p>\n<p>Every five years, IAHS organizes an international conference, where the J\u00e1nos Lotz medal is awarded to scholars based outside Hungary who have distinguished themselves in the field of Hungarian studies. The medal is named in honor of J\u00e1nos Lotz (1913-1973), a seminal figure in the study and promotion of Hungarian language and literature, who spent much of his working life in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Sherwood, who is based in the department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures in the College of Arts and Sciences, focuses his studies on Hungarian linguistics, English-Hungarian and Hungarian-English lexicography, and translation of Hungarian literature into English.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Sherwood, Laszlo Birinyi Sr. Distinguished Professor of Hungarian Language and Culture, was recognized by the International Association for Hungarian Studies (IAHS) with the J\u00e1nos Lotz medal for promoting Hungarian studies abroad. The IAHS was established in 1977 for Hungarian scholars, both within and outside the country. 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