Denis Sinor

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Denis Sinor (Born Zsinór Dénes in Kolozsvár (Austria-Hungary, now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) April 17, 1916; died in January 12, 2011 in Bloomington, Indiana)^[1] was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Central Asian Studies at the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University and a tenured lecturer at Cambridge University between 1948 and 1962, and was one of the world's leading scholars for the history of Central Asia. Under his directorhip, the Central Asian Studies at Indiana University became one of the worlds foremost centers for Central Asian history, languages and linguistics. He grew up in Hungary and Switzerland and went to university in Budapest. During the Second World War, he was a member of the French resistance, served in the French army, and became a French citizen. Sinor wrote eight books and edited an additional thirteen. He authored more than 160 articles in several languages such as English, German, French, Hungarian, Russian and many other, more than 150 book reviews, and also contributed to Encyclopædia Britannica.^[2] Sinor also served as editor of the Journal of Asian History starting with the publication's inception in 1967.

Selected works

History of Hungary. New York: Praeger. 1959. ISBN # Check |isbn= value (help).
Inner Asia. History-Civilization-Languages. A syllabus. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1969. ISBN # Check |isbn= value (help).
Inner Asia and its contacts with medieval Europe. London: Variorum. 1977. ISBN 978-0-86078-001-4.
The Uralic languages : description, history, and foreign influences. New York: Brill Publishers. 1988. p. 518. ISBN 978-90-04-07741-6.
The Cambridge history of early Inner Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-521-24304-9.
The Uralic and Altaic series. London: Curzon Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-7007-0380-7.
Studies in medieval Inner Asia. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing. 1997. ISBN 978-0-86078-632-0.

References

↑ Obituary for Denis Sinor
↑ "Denis Sinor". Department of Central Eurasian Studies. Indiana University. Oct 26, 2010. Retrieved October 16, 2012.

External links

Denis Sinor Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University

v t e Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University

Current faculty:	Christopher Beckwith Devin Deweese Nazif Shahrani Elliot Sperling

Former faculty:	Yuri Bregel John Krueger Thubten Jigme Norbu Denis Sinor

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Name	Sinor, Denis
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Short description	American academic
Date of birth	April 17, 1916
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Date of death	January 12, 2011
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