Imre Galambos at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Saint Petersburg, July 2010

Imre Galambos (Chinese: 高奕睿; pinyin: Gāo Yìruì; born 1967) is a Hungarian sinologist and Tangutologist who specialises in the study of medieval Chinese and Tangut manuscripts from Dunhuang. He is a professor of Chinese Studies at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge.[1][2]

Biography

Galambos was born in Szőny, Hungary in 1967, and studied at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.[3] After graduating with an MA in 1994 he went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2002 he was awarded a PhD, with a dissertation on Chinese writing during the Warring States period.[4]

Galambos worked at the British Library in London, England from 2002 to 2012, where he was a member of the team working on the International Dunhuang Project. During this time he specialised in the study of Dunhuang manuscripts, and collaborated with Sam van Schaik on a study of a Dunhuang manuscript comprising the letters of a 10th-century Chinese Buddhist monk on pilgrimage from China to India.[5] Whilst at the British Library he also published studies on The General's Garden and other Tangut translations of Chinese military treatises.

Since 2012 Galambos has been a lecturer in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, where he teaches pre-modern Chinese Studies.[6]

Works

References

  1. ^ "Dr Imre Galambos — Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies". www.ames.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
  2. ^ College webpage
  3. ^ "Tudós a Selyemúton". 5 May 2012. Retrieved 2014-12-12.
  4. ^ "Chinese Studies Teaching Staff: Dr Imre Galambos". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 2013-03-28. Retrieved 2012-11-13.
  5. ^ Galambos, Imre; van Schaik, Sam (2010). "Following the Tracks of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim" (PDF). IDP News (35). ISSN 1354-5914.
  6. ^ "IDP Quarterly Report: April – June 2012" (PDF). International Dunhuang Project. Retrieved 2012-11-13.