Letters from Tayyib Gökbilgin’s personal archives : László Rásonyi

Tayyib Gökbilgin, who ranks among the founding fathers of Ottoman studies, was the first student of Faculty of Language, History, and Geography in Ankara, the new capital of the new state, where he began studying Hungarology as a student of László Rásonyi. The correspondences in Gökbilgin's personal collection offer a very interesting and valuable picture of a very complex period, in which the individual perspectives of scholars on the socio-political environment can also be traced. The aim of this article is to present the exemplary letters of László Rásonyi, the first head of the Department of Hungarology to his first student and later colleague Tayyib Gökbilgin in the context of the personal archive and first-person documents.