biography
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Vámbéry, Arminius
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originally Armín Vámbéry
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pronunciation:
[vambayree]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1832–1913)
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| biography:
| Traveller and philologist, born in Duna-Szerdahely, Hungary (now Dunajská Streda, SW Slovak Republic). He travelled to Constantinople, where he taught French in the house of a minister, and in 1858 issued a German–Turkish dictionary. Having travelled through the deserts of the Oxus to Khiva and Samarkand (1862–4), he wrote Travels and Adventures in Central Asia (1864). Professor of oriental languages in Budapest until 1905, he published works on Turkish and other Altaic languages, the ethnography of the Turks, the origin of the Magyars, and many other oriental subjects. |
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