Ármin Vámbéry
Ármin Vámbéry · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Hungarian orientalist and pioneering Turkologist.
1832, Szentgyörgy, Kingdom of Hungary (now Svätý Jur, Slovakia) — 1913, Budapest, Hungary
Hungary
Ármin Vámbéry is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Hungarian orientalist and pioneering Turkologist.
Ármin Vámbéry was a Hungarian orientalist and pioneering Turkologist who journeyed across Central Asia disguised as a dervish and became a leading scholar of Turkic languages. He was born into a poor Jewish family as Hermann Wamberger; his Jewish origins are well documented, though his later religious identity was complex.
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Hungarian orientalist and pioneering Turkologist.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
