Draft:Balázs Sudár

Balázs Sudár (born 28 May 1972) is a Hungarian historian, Turkologist, and musician. Researcher of the early Hungarian history and the era of Ottoman Hungary. He is a member of the Hungarian Historical Archery Society.

Early life and education
He graduated from Teleki Blanka Gymnasium in 1990. He obtained his university degree in Turkish and History at the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). Until 2003, he worked as a teaching assistant at the Department of Turkish at the same university, concurrently participating in the doctoral program. As a student of ELTE's Faculty of Humanities, he earned diplomas in history and Turkish philology. He defended his PhD dissertation in 2004 under the title "A Palatics-kódex török versgyűjteménye 1588–1589" (The Turkish Poetry Collections of the Palatics Codex and the Cultural History of Ottoman Hungary.)

Career
Between 1997 and 1999, he worked as a librarian in the Eastern Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences library. Additionally, he worked as a part-time lecturer at the Department of Turkish Philology of the Eötvös Loránd University. Between 1999 and 2003, he was an assistant lecturer. Since 2003, he has been a senior research fellow at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Between 2008 and 2014, he was a senior lecturer at the Department of Altaic Studies at the University of Szeged. Between 2014 and 2019, he led the 'Early Hungarians' Research Group at the Faculty of Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 2019, he has been a museologist at the Budapest History Museum.

Art career
He was a member of the Musica Historica Ensemble from 1990 to 2011, with which he regularly performed, primarily focusing on Hungarian and Central European early music. In 1997, he founded the Canlar Ensemble to perform traditional Turkish music, focusing on classical and folk genres. He has also collaborated as a guest musician with other bands. He is skilled in playing kobza, lavta, and bağlama. In addition to his musical pursuits, he is associated with the direction of the staging of 'Aucassin and Nicolette,' a medieval French fictional story performed in Szentbékkálla in 1993.

Awards

 * Klaniczay Tibor Award (2006)
 * Youth Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2006)
 * Ferenc Szakály Memorial Medal (2008)
 * Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, Knight’s Cross (2014)

Works
Balázs Sudár primarily publishes in Hungarian, but some of his works have also been released in foreign languages.
 * Turkish Courtly Music under 16th-century Ottoman Rule in Hungary. In: Irano-Turkic Cultural Contacts in the 11th–17th centuries. (Acta et Studia I.) d.: Éva M. Jeremiás. Piliscsaba, 2003, p233–243.
 * Baths in Ottoman Hungary. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 57 (2004):4, p391−437.
 * Turkish ’Kopuz’ – Hungarian ’Koboz’. A Study int he History of a Musical Instrument. In: Turkish Flowers. Studies on Ottoman Art in Hungary. Ed.: Ibolya Gerelyes. Budapest, 2005, p143–156.
 * A Rudas a törökkorban. / The Rudas in the Turkish Period. / Das Rudas-Bad in der Türkenzeit. In: Rudas gyógyfürdő – Thermal Baths – Heilbad. Szerk.: Radnainé Keresztes Mária. Budapest, 2006, p8–25.
 * Bálint Balassi ve Türk Şiiri. In: Bálint Balassi. XVI. Yüzyıl Macar Ozan Bálint Balassi ve Şiirlerinden Örnekler. Haz.: Edit Tasnádi–Dursun Ayan. Budapest, 2006, p45–53.
 * Pál Fodor−Balázs Sudár: Ali Pasa’nın evlilik öyküsünün tarihsel geri planı ve Osmanlılara ilgili yanları. Belleten 70 (2006):259, p963–1000
 * Bektaşi Monasteries in Ottoman Hungary (16th–17th centuries). Acta Orientalia Academaiae Scientiarum Hungariae 61 (2008):1–2, p227–248.
 * Tko je bio Hasan-paša Jakovali? Scrinia Slavonica 9 (2009), p398–406.
 * Osmanlı Macaristanı'nda Camiler ve Mescitler. In: Thirtheenth International Congress of Turkish Art. Eds.: Géza Dávid–Ibolya Gerelyes. Budapest, 2009, p637−650.
 * Iskender and Gábor Bethlen: The Pasha and the Prince. In: Eurpoe and the ’Ottoman World’. Exchanges and Conflicts. Eds.: Gábor Kármán–Radu G. Paun. İstanbul, 2013, p141–169.
 * Osmanlı Macaristan’ında camiye çevrilen kiliseler. Güney-Doğu Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi 25 (2014), p55–78.
 * Two Hawking Drums at the Hungarian National Museum. In: Ottoman Metalwork in the Balkans and in Hungary. Eds.: Ibolya Gerelyes–Maximilian Hartmuth. Budapest, 2015, p181–190.
 * Sudár Balázs−Csörsz Rumen István: Macaristan’da Mehter Müziği. İstanbul, Pan Yayincilik, 2016.
 * Primii ani ai stapanirii otomane la Oradea (1660–1665). In: „Oradea, poarta Ardealului...” Rolul istoric al Oradiei in epoca Principatului. Studii despre istoria Ţării Bihorului 2. Szerk.: Oborni Teréz. Oradea, 2017, p117−129.
 * The Ottomans and the mental conquest of Hungary. In: Identity and Culture in Ottoman Hungary. Eds. Fodor Pál−Ács Pál. Berlin, 2017, p55−67.
 * Sudár Balázs−Hatházi Gábor−Kovács Gyöngyi: „I Heard the Singing of the Mohammedan Ezan”. Ottoman Turkish Mosque int he Csókakő Castle (Fejér Country). Hungarian Archaeology 2017, p46−57.
 * Sudár Balázs−Petkes Zsolt−Türk Attila: Ural’dan Karpat Havzası’na Macarların Göçü ve Yurt Tutması. İstanbul, Macar Kültür Merkezi, 2017.
 * Мадьяры в персидском географическом сочинении «Худӯд ал-āлам» (982г.) In: Археология евразийских степей 2018:6, p257−265.
 * „Hadak útján”. A népvándorláskor fiatal kutatóinak XXIX. konferenciája. Budapest, 2019. november 15–16. 29th Conference of young scholars on the Migration Period. November 15‒16, 2019, Absztraktkötet. Szerk.: Sudár Balázs−Türk Attila. Budapest, PPKE BTK Régészettudományi Intézet−Martin Opitz Kiadó−BTK Magyar Őstörténeti Témacsoport. Budapest, 2019. ISBN: 9789639987579
 * The Story of Mürtezea Pasha. In: Şerefe. Studies in Honour of Prof. Géza Dávid on His Seventieth Birthday. Szerk.: Fodor Pál−Kovács Nándor Erik−Péri Benedek. Budapest, 2019, p339−357
 * An Aristoctratic Albanian Family that Gained a Foothold and Emerged in the Hungarian Borderlands: the Aranids. In: „These were hard times for Skanderbeg, but he had an ally, the Hungarian Hunyadi” : Episodes in Albanian-Hungarian Historical Contacts. Ed.: Csaplár-Degovics Krisztián. Budapest, 2019, p23−34
 * Hétország: Egy rejtélyes ország a 10. századi Kaukázusban = Sevenland: A Mysterious Country in the 10th Century Caucasus. Történelmi Szemle 62. pp. 1-9. ISSN 0040-9634