Mihály Hoppál (Kassa /Košice/, Slovakia, 1942), ethnographer. Senior Fellow of the Institute of Ethnology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Director of the European Folklore Institute in Budapest since 1998. Main titles from the author: Space, Community and Communication (1977), Shamans: spirits and symbols (1994), Folklore and Community (1998), Studies on Mythology and Uralic Shamanism (2000).