Miklós Kásler - Zoltán Szentirmay (szerk.): Identifying the Árpád Dynasty Skeletons Interred in the Matthias Church. Applying data from historical, archaeological, anthropological, radiological, morphological, radiocarbon dating and genetic research (Budapest, 2021)
Foreword
At this time my situation changed, and I had the opportunity to try and coordinate the researchers and efforts in the interests of the original objective. On my initiative, the Government of Hungary set up the Institute for Hungarian Studies (Magyarságkutató Intézet, MKT), whose programme existed before its official establishment as this prompted the Government’s decision to set it up. This Institute coordinates all the disciplines which are able to provide substantive data concerning the origin as well as early and later history of the Hungarian people. I asked Gábor Horváth-Lugossy to head the Institute. With immeasurable dedication, accuracy and a large degree of intuition he organised the eleven research institutes which are able to manage, research and synthesise the activities of various relevant scientific disciplines from historical science, folk music, ecclesiastical history, classical philology through to archaeology, anthropology and archaeogenetics. The initial idea of inviting capable and competent researchers to accomplish one particular objective was implemented when the MKI was established. My responsibility is now to support its survival and operational capacity, select research topics and provide the multiple conditions needed for the research. In the last few years of the 2010s, a promising examination was launched into the genetics of the Szekler (Székely) and Csango populations. Professor Attila Miseta and Professor Béla Meleg are leading this research. After favourable negotiations this research was also included in the profile of the Institute for Hungarian Studies when Endre Neparáczki joined the organisation. We might conclude that the Institute for Hungarian Studies met one of the conditions for its establishment by encompassing and 17
