Ármin Vámbéry
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Hungarian orientalist, academic (1832–1913)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1832-03-19 ) 19 March 1832, Szentgyörgy / Sankt Georgen , Pozsony County , Kingdom of Hungary , Austrian Empire , (now Svätý Jur )
- Died
- 15 September 1913 (1913-09-15) (aged 81), Budapest , Austria-Hungary
- Occupations
- Turkologist , orientalist, traveller
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Place of birth
- Svätý Jur
- Place of death
- Budapest
- Child
- Rustem Vambery
- Employer
- Nyugat
- Languages spoken
- Turkish
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Doctoral student
- Ignaz Goldziher
- Field of work
- linguistics
- Image
- Portrait of Ármin Vámbéry.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ármin Vámbéry
- date of birth
- 1832-01-00
- date of death
- 1913-09-19
- Commons gallery
- Ármin Vámbéry
- place of burial
- Fiume Road Graveyard
- name in native language
- Vámbéry Ármin
- Commons Creator page
- Ármin Vámbéry
- archives at
- New York Public Library Main Branch
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Ármin Vámbéry, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
![[Brief]](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdl.ub.uni-freiburg.de%2FdiglitData%2Fimage%2Fautogr0278%2F3%2F001.jpg&type=IMAGE)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ármin Vámbéry (born Hermann Wamberger; 19 March 1832 – 15 September 1913), also known as Arminius Vámbéry, was a Hungarian Turkologist and traveller.
Early life
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