A book entitled «Kypshak
Konyr» by Kazakh writer and poet Marzhan Yershu about the renowned Hungarian turkologist
Istvan Kongur Mandoki was presented in Astana. According to the author, it took
her about nine years to write the book which features the life of the scientist
and his scientific heritage. Notably, Istvan Kongur Mandoki dedicated his life
to the study of Turkic peoples, including the Kipchaks. He studied their
language, traditions, culture, history, and literature. His works made a significant
contribution to the spiritual unity of the Turkic world. The fate of the
scientist was largely connected with Kazakhstan, where he conducted scientific
research in the 1970s and later married a Kazakh woman, Onaisha Maksymkyzy.
According to his will, Mandoki was buried in Kazakhstan.
«He
translated numerous works from Kazakh into Hungarian, ranging from Kazakh folk
literature to the famous works of Abai and Abish Kekilbayev. He undertook an
enormous amount of linguistic work and also published numerous works on
Turkology. He maintained friendly relations with figures such as Olzhas
Suleimenov, Chingiz Aitmatov, and Rasul Gamzatov, and engaged with the public and
creative intellectuals. This is what I write about in my book,» said writer
Marzhan Yershu.
