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Ármin Vámbéry

Who

Ármin Vámbéry · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Hungarian orientalist and pioneering Turkologist.

When

1832, Szentgyörgy, Kingdom of Hungary (now Svätý Jur, Slovakia) — 1913, Budapest, Hungary

Where

Hungary

Biography

Ármin Vámbéry is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Hungarian orientalist and pioneering Turkologist.

How & why

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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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics

Contributions & Sources

Hungarian orientalist and pioneering Turkologist.

1832

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics