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A Seventeenth-century Odyssey in East Central Europe: The Life of Jakab Harsányi Nagy

By Gábor Kármán

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2016
ISBN
9004294279, 9789004294271
ISSN
2405-4488
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7143205 bytes)
Series
The History of Oriental Studies 2
Pages
x+316\327
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-01-03 16:56:46
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Description

In A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey Gábor Kármán reconstructs the life story of a lesser-known Hungarian orientalist, Jakab Harsányi Nagy. The discussion of his activities as a school teacher in Transylvania, as a diplomat and interpreter at the Sublime Porte, as a secretary of a Moldavian voivode in exile, as well as a court councillor of Friedrich Wilhelm, the Great Elector of Brandenburg not only sheds light upon the extraordinarily versatile career of this individual, but also on the variety of circles in which he lived. Gábor Kármán also gives the first historical analysis of Harsányi’s contribution to Turkish studies, the Colloquia Familiaria Turcico-latina (1672).

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