State Award of the People\s Republic of Hungary no relation 1st degree Kossuth Prize
Awards
Member of HAS (corresponding: 1939, full: 1947)
Kossuth Prize, 2nd degree (1952)
Order of Merit for Labour (1955)
Gold Medal of Labour (1964)
External Member of the Academy of Finland (1967)
State Award of the People's Republic of Hungary, 1st degree (1970) – for his work Biography of the Hungarian Language and for his entire oeuvre.
Honorary Doctor of the University of Debrecen (1973)