| A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey in East Central Europe: The Life of Jakab Harsányi Nagy Contributor(s): Kármán, Gábor (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004294279 ISBN-13: 9789004294271 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $177.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - General - History | Middle East - General - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Series: History of Oriental Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.32 lbs) 326 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey G bor K rm n reconstructs the life story of a lesser-known Hungarian orientalist, Jakab Hars nyi 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. G bor K rm n also gives the first historical analysis of Hars nyi's contribution to Turkish studies, the Colloquia Familiaria Turcico-latina (1672). |