The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-28
story of Arminius ynmberv.

London Times: Prof. Arminius YAM
berry, who died suddenly last month at
his residence in Budapest in his eighty
second year, was born of Jewish par
entS in the small Hungarian town Of
Duna-Szerdahely. BY the time he was
10 he was ConVersant with a number of
the principal languages of Europe and
ASIA. Turkish had a great fascination
Tor MIN. and, when he was 20, his
thoughts were bent or gaining an in
sight into the splendors of the east and
also on toll0Wing Up his linguistic stud
to realize, thanks to the help Of Baron
Joseph Eotvos, who procured hin a
Tree passage to the Black Sea. Arrived
IN Constantinople he, for a while, exec
out his penury by reciting Turkish and
Persian poems in the coffee-house. The
faVor of Turkish friends and his own
abilities gained him in course Of time
an entrance into Ottoman society, from
wn1ch ne emerged a veritable effendi
with the name of Reshid.
Nambery resolved, in spite of his
scanty means and Of the lameness from
which he had suffered since he was 2
years old, to make a journey to Khiva,
Bokhara, and Samarkand in order to
pursue his linguistic researches. He
nad already been made a correspond
ing member of the Hungarian Academy
OF Science. and in 1861 the sum Of 1000
forins was voted to him. Next wear he
left for Persia, joining a caravan of
Tartar pilgrims returning from Mecca
IN strict disguise as a dervish. Leaving
Ieheran on March %, 1868. Vambery
reached KhiVa, after intense sufferings
from thirst in the trackless desert. at
1.-THE end of May. BY the khan of Khiva
he was treated with exceptional kind
ness, n he afterwards recalled with
a shudder' the number OF times thai he
had to sit down at 8 or 4 in the morninp
70 a plate of rice swimming in mutton
fat. - ~
After visiting ~samarkand, Herat and
Mesned, ne made his way back to Hun
gary. P~rejudices against him, however
on account mainly of his Jewish and
humble birth, led to his having onlv A
Iukewarm reception, and he came On 20
L3ndoh winch he reached in June,
!oo4' tere ne gave an. account of his
travels at a meeting of the Royal Geo
graphical society and did. his, best to
convince public men in England of the
necessity Tor the creation of a neutral
zone or a geographical buffer state in
central Asia. The writing of his mar
ratiye Of the journey gave him infinite
tfouble as he had to trust largely to
memory His book, however, was a
lated into fourteen or more European
and oriental languages. Varrbery
found the change from the character OF
a dervish in central Asia to that Of the
lion. Of a London season a somewhat
trying experience, and he was glad tc
return to his own country, there to. set.
tie down as a professor of oriental
languages in the university of Buda.
pest. --.
Meanwhile, from 1858 EDWARDS. Yam.
berry made repeated visits to England
and lectured in many different towns
throughout the country. Alike in lee.
lures, letters to the Times, and review
articles; he took up a".strong anti,
Russian attitude, especially in refer
ence to what he declared to be tn
steady advance of Russia towards tn,
frontiers of India.
In 1889, or the occasion(of a further
stay in London, he was the guest d
Queen Victoria at Windsor. He had al
| ready been the guest of King Edward
then prince of Wales. lra 9m 4