Tibor Frank was a Hungarian historian who was professor of history at the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the Eotvos Lorand University.
11 Facts About Tibor Frank
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Tibor Frank was director of its School of English and American Studies.
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Tibor Frank attended Cambridge University, England.
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Tibor Frank was one of the founding members of the Department of American Studies in ELTE in 1990 and chair from 1992 to 1994.
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Professor Tibor Frank was chairman of the Commission of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, chairman of the 2nd Bolyai Grant Program and a member of the Book and Journal Commission of the academy.
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Tibor Frank founded Hungary's Modern Filologiai Tarsasag of Hungarian Academy of Sciences [Modern Language Association of HAS] in 1983, and served the association as secretary general from 1983 to 1996 and as vice president between 1996 and 2007.
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Tibor Frank served as member on the board of Historical Abstracts, Nationalities Papers, Polanyiana, the European Journal of American Culture and Kulugyi Szemle.
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Tibor Frank was co-president, and became honorary president in 2004, of the Hungarian Association of American Studies and was a board member of the European Association for American Studies.
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Between 1988 and 1990 Tibor Frank was a Fulbright Visiting Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at UCLA.
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Tibor Frank was an Istvan Deak Chair Visiting Professor at the history department of Columbia University in the City of New York in 2001,2007, and 2010.
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Tibor Frank was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London in 2006.