Tamás Adamik

Tamás Adamik (born August 6, 1937) is a Hungarian classical philologist and linguist, literary historian, and translator.

He was so impressed by the Piarists that he considered joining the order as a monk, and studied theology with them for four years, but decided that giving up marriage would be a mistake.

He left the Piarists and attended Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) where he studied Latin and Russian further, graduating with a dual major in both.

Due to political pressures to gain a credential in something Marxism-related, Adamik applied for a correspondence postgraduate course where he could both fulfill his interest in languages but also get any Marxist philosophy requirements out of the way.

[2] In the academic year 1990–1991, he taught as a distinguished visiting professor at Millersville University in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.