Imre Galambos (

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高奕睿,

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Gāo Yìruì; born 1967) is a Hungarian Sinologist and Tangutologist who specialises in the study of medieval Chinese and Tangut

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s from Dunhuang. He is a professor of Chinese Studies at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of

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Biography

Galambos was born in

Szőny Szőny was a town in Hungary. Since 1977, it has been part of the city of Komárom. History The Roman legion Legio I Adiutrix was based here from 86 AD to the mid-5th century and took part in several Parthian wars. The town was known as Briget ...

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in 1967, and studied at the Eötvös Loránd University in

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. After graduating with an MA in 1994 he went on to study at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, and in 2002 he was awarded a PhD, with a dissertation on Chinese writing during the

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. Galambos worked at the

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from 2002 to 2012, where he was a member of the team working on the

International Dunhuang Project The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise manuscripts, printed texts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from the Mogao caves at the Western Chinese city of Dunhuang and v ...

. During this time he specialised in the study of

Dunhuang manuscripts Dunhuang manuscripts refer to a wide variety of religious and secular documents (mostly manuscripts, but also including some woodblock-printed texts) in Chinese and other languages that were discovered at the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China, duri ...

, and collaborated with

Sam van Schaik Sam Julius van Schaik is an English tibetologist. Education He obtained a PhD in Tibetan Buddhist literature at the University of Manchester in 2000, with a dissertation on the translations of Dzogchen texts by Jigme Lingpa. Career Sinc ...

on a study of a Dunhuang manuscript comprising the letters of a 10th-century Chinese Buddhist monk on pilgrimage from China to India. Whilst at the British Library he also published studies on '' The General's Garden'' and other Tangut translations of Chinese military treatises. Since 2012 Galambos has been a lecturer in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

, where he teaches pre-modern Chinese Studies.

Works

*2016
''Gerard Clauson's Skeleton Tangut (Hsi Hsia) Dictionary: A facsimile edition''
With an introduction by Imre Galambos. With Editorial notes and an Index by Andrew West. Prepared for publication by

Michael Everson Michael Everson (born January 9, 1963) is an American and Irish linguist, script encoder, typesetter, type designer and publisher. He runs a publishing company called Evertype, through which he has published over a hundred books since 2006. H ...

. Portlaoise: Evertype. . *2015
''Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture: Manuscripts and Printed Books from Khara-Khoto''
(open-access). Berlin: DeGruyter. . * 2012. "Consistency in Tangut Translations of Chinese Military Texts". In Irina Fedorovna Popova (ed.), ''Тангуты в Центральной Азии: сборник статей в честь 80-летия проф. Е.И.Кычанова'' E._I._Kychanov.html" ;"title="Yevgeny_Kychanov.html" ;"title="anguts in Central Asia: a collection of articles marking the 80th anniversary of Prof. Yevgeny Kychanov">E. I. Kychanov">Yevgeny_Kychanov.html" ;"title="anguts in Central Asia: a collection of articles marking the 80th anniversary of Prof. Yevgeny Kychanov">E. I. Kychanovpp. 84–96. Moscow: Oriental Literature. * 2011. With

. ''Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim''. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter. * 2011.
The northern neighbors of the Tangut
; in ''Cahiers de Linguistique – Asie Orientale'' 40: 69–104. * 2011. "The Tangut translation of the General’s Garden by Zhuge Liang"; in ''Written Monuments of the Orient'' 14(1): 131–142. * 2008.
A 10th-century manuscript from Dunhuang concerning the Gantong monastery at Liangzhou
; ''Tonkō Shahon Kenkyū Nenpō'' (敦煌寫本研究年報) 2: 63–82. * 2006.
Orthography of Early Chinese Writing: Evidence from Newly Excavated Manuscripts (490–221 BC)
'. Budapest Monographs in East Asian Studies. Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University.

References

External links

Chinese manuscripts
— Galambos' academic blog {{DEFAULTSORT:Galambos, Imre 1967 births Eötvös Loránd University alumni Academics of the University of Cambridge Hungarian sinologists Tangutologists Living people Fellows of Robinson College, Cambridge