UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED
DOCTORAL SCHOOL IN LINGUISTICS
Mihály Kocsis is Professor Emeritus, who graduated from József Attila University (now the University of Szeged) with a degree in Russian and from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest with a degree in Ukrainian language and literature. From the very beginning, his professional interests have focused on the study of linguistic and orthographic issues of the oldest (16th century) Ukrainian church manuscripts preserved in Hungary. After publishing annotated texts of several codices, he devoted his academic doctoral dissertation to this topic. He has also published a number of papers on the development of modern Ukrainian orthography in the 19th century. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Studia Slavica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae.
