László Károly graduated in Altaic Studies (Linguistics), University of Szeged, Department of Altaic Studies in 2002 and defended hia PhD in 2008. He has been the chair and professor of the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University since 2016. Earlier he worked in the Department of Altaic Studies at University of Szeged, in Frankfurt and Mainz between 2005 and 2016.

His main fields of studies are Turkic philology, Old ad and Middle Turkic texts, etymological and morphological studies of Altaic languages.

His related monographies:

Károly, László 2013. Deverbal nominals in Yakut: A historical approach. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (Turcologica, 96). 2013

Károly, László A Turkic medical treatise from Islamic Central Asia: A critical edition of a Seventeenth-century Chagatay work by Subḥān Qulï Khan. Edited, translated and annotated by László Károly. Leiden and Boston: 2 Brill (Brill’s Inner Asian Library, 32). 2015.

Károly, László  Modern Turkic languages: An introduction with accompanying audio. Uppsala and Budapest: Molnar & Kelemen Oriental Publishers (Bibliotheca Turcica, 2) 2022.