Publication

2016 - Brill, Netherlands

Language

English

Word Count

78,750 words, Guess

Page Count

315 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-109004294279
  • ISBN-139789004294271
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015035475
  • OCLC Control Number927241022
  • Better World Books9789004294271
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC943.9/041092
  • DDCB
  • LCCCT968.H377 K27 2016
and 1 more
  • LCCCT968.H377K27 2015

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)"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The history of Oriental studies -- volume 2
  • History of Oriental studies -- v. 2.

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