Ostiacica I: Remarks on K. Rédei’s Nord-ostjakische Texte (Kazym-Dialekt)

Abstract

In his miscella the author deals with the problems of scattered notes and remarks on Károly Rédei’s work Nord­ost ja ki schen Texte (Kazym­Dialekt) as well as with several reviews of this work and shows with which difficulties we are still confronted when dealing with all these materials. Indeed, there are still some remarks and corrections to be done on Rédei’s work which have been overlooked by all the reviewers, but besides all criticism the work is still worth reading since it is one of the most important collections of Northern-Ostyak texts. In the course of his works on the Altaic elements in Uralic languages the author of the contribution in hand incidentally came in possession of materials from the estate of the famous Uralist and Al taist István Futaky (12.5.1926–21.1.2013).1 On some small slips of paper, which were placed in a separatum of Futaky’s review (1971) of 1 The major part of the estate of Futaky – consisting of familial as well as scientific correspondence and of some docu men ts from the time of his imprisonment in Hungary (including copies from the files of the Office of History regarding his personality) – today it is kept in the Komitat-archive in Nyíregyháza (Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Megyei Le véltár) and has been handed over to this institution by his family. The library of the Göttingian Uralist, FennoUgrist, Hun ga ro logist, Sibirist and Tun gu sologist was delivered to the Jósa András Museum in Nyíregyháza. Only a small part of his estate has remained in Göt tin gen and has been transferred to the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Printings of the State and University Library of Göttingen (“Abteilung Handschriften und Seltene Drucke der Niedersächsischen Staatsund Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen”) in 2014 (Knüppel 2016).