LULLABİES COLLECTED BY A HUNGARİAN SCHOLAR İN TURKİSH

Abstract

Ignats Kunos is one of the scientists whose name is revered in Turkish folk literature. After his death, the life and work of I. Kunosh came into the spotlight, and he became one of the main sources consulted by all who study Turkish folk literature.

Kunosh had a special talent in the field of collecting and systematizing folklore texts. Wherever he went, he interacted with people and always returned with a handful of folklore samples. I. Kunosh's hard work and conducting research in difficult conditions all his life created for him a foundation that allows him to always remain in the center of attention of world scientists. He was a respected scientist in Germany, Russia and especially Turkey. He was repeatedly invited to Turkey to hold conferences and seminars in Istanbul and Ankara, and as a result of this visit, several works of the scientist were published there. In the same year, the scientist led the creation of the Department of Folk Literature at Istanbul University there.

I.Kunosh devoted his entire life to collecting and publishing Turkish folk literature. With his collecting activities, he made an invaluable contribution to the Turkic world, something that European scientists could not do before him. Thanks to his research, many forgotten Turkish dialects and dialects, as well as folklore texts, prevented the images reflected in these texts from disappearing. As we delve deeper into his work, a richer and more diverse Turkish folk literature comes to life before our eyes. Thanks to I. Kunosh, the words “Koroğlu”, “Asli va Karam”, “Aşyk Garib” and others, once pronounced in the language of the peoples of the Turkish lands, have today been erased from the map. epics, hundreds of folk songs, legends, fairy tales have come and gone until today.