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ANTAL BABUS (Gyöngyös, 1960) literary historian, librarian graduated from Debrecen University (KLTE) in 1984 majoring in Hungarian and Russian. He obtained his PhD degree in 2002 from the same university. He has been working in the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Library and Information Centre of the
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