Mária Bajzek Lukács ( sl, Marija Bajzek Lukač; January 24, 1960) is a Hungarian

Slovene language Slovene ( or ), or alternatively Slovenian (; or ), is a South Slavic languages, South Slavic language, a sub-branch that is part of the Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family ...

writer and university professor. She was born in

Szentgotthárd Szentgotthárd ( sl, Monošter; german: St. Gotthard) is the westernmost town of Hungary. It is situated on the Rába River near the Austrian border. History The town took its name from, and grew up round, the Cistercian Szentgotthárd Abbey, fo ...

and spent her childhood in

Felsőszölnök Felsőszölnök ( sl, Gornji Senik, german: Oberzemming. la, Zelnuk Superior) is a village in Vas County, Hungary. It is the westernmost point of Hungary, and lies on the borders with Slovenia and Austria. Location The nearest settlements are ...

. Between 1974 and 1978, she attended the Serbo-Croatian High School in

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

. In 1978, she started her studies in

Ljubljana Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...

, and in 1983 received a Slovene and Serbo-Croatian teaching degree. Until 1988, Bajzek Lukács was the editor of ''Narodne Novine.'' In 2004, she earned a doctorate in

. Mária Bajzek is an adjunct professor at the Department of Slavic Philology today at the

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of the

Eötvös Loránd University Eötvös Loránd University ( hu, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE) is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in Hung ...

and a visiting teacher in

Maribor Maribor ( , , , ; also known by other #Name, historical names) is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Styria (Slovenia), Lower Styria. It is also the seat of the City Municipality of Maribor, th ...

. She speaks Hungarian, Slovene (including the local

Prekmurje dialect Prekmurje Slovene, also known as the Prekmurje dialect, East Slovene, or Wendish ( sl, prekmurščina, prekmursko narečje, hu, vend nyelv, muravidéki nyelv, Prekmurje dialect: ''prekmürski jezik, prekmürščina, prekmörščina, prekmör ...

), Serbian, and Croatian. One area of her research is

Prekmurje Slovene Prekmurje Slovene, also known as the Prekmurje dialect, East Slovene, or Wendish ( sl, prekmurščina, prekmursko narečje, hu, vend nyelv, muravidéki nyelv, Prekmurje dialect: ''prekmürski jezik, prekmürščina, prekmörščina, prekmör ...

. In 2009, she wrote the dictionary of the Felsőszölnök dialect, and in 2010 she translated a book on the history of the Prekmurje dialect and Slovene. Her husband István Lukács is also a professor at ELTE.

Selected works

* Marija Bajzek Lukács: ''Slovar Gornjega Senika A-L'', Bielsko Biała 2009. ZORA 66. * Bajzek Mária, Lukács István, Mladen Pavičić: ''Szlovén irodalmi antológia'', Budapest, 2007, 206-213.

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1960 births Living people Academic staff of Eötvös Loránd University Hungarian Slovenes Hungarian women writers Prekmurje Slovene Slovenian writers and poets in Hungary University of Ljubljana alumni Slovenian women writers {{Hungary-writer-stub

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