Denis Sinor

Denis Sinor(bornDénes Zsinór,April 17, 1916 inKolozsvár(Austria-Hungary, nowCluj-Napoca,Romania) – January 12, 2011 inBloomington,Indiana) was a DistinguishedProfessor EmeritusofCentral Asian Studiesat theDepartment of Central Eurasian StudiesatIndiana Universityand a tenured lecturer atCambridge Universitybetween 1948 and 1962, and was one of the world's leading scholars for thehistory of Central Asia.Under his directorship, the Central Asian Studies at Indiana University became one of the world's foremost centers for Central Asian history, languages and linguistics.

He grew up in Hungary and Switzerland and went to university inBudapest.During the Second World War, he was a member of the French resistance, served in the French army, and became a French citizen. Sinor wrote eight books and edited an additional thirteen. He authored more than 160 articles in several languages such as English, German, French, Hungarian, Russian and many other, more than 150 book reviews, and also contributed toEncyclopædia Britannica.Sinor served as editor of theJournal of Asian History,between the publication's inception in 1967 and his death in 2011.

Selected works

• History of Hungary.New York:Praeger.1959.
• Inner Asia; History-Civilization-Languages: A syllabus.Bloomington:Indiana University Press.1969.ISBN9780700708963.
• Inner Asia and its Contacts with Medieval Europe.London: Variorum. 1977.ISBN978-0-86078-001-4.
• The Uralic Languages: description, history, and foreign influences.New York:Brill Publishers.1988. p. 518.ISBN978-90-04-07741-6.
• Sinor, Denis, ed. (1990).The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia.Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.ISBN978-0-521-24304-9.
• The Uralic and Altaic Series.London: Curzon Press. 1996.ISBN978-0-7007-0380-7.
• Studies in Medieval Inner Asia.Aldershot, Hampshire:Ashgate Publishing.1997.ISBN978-0-86078-632-0.
• Sinor, Denis. 1999. “The Mongols in the West”.Journal of Asian History;33 (1). Harrassowitz Verlag: 1–44.https:// jstor.org/stable/41933117.

External links

• Denis SinorArchived2015-06-04 at theWayback MachineDepartment of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University