A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey in East Central Europe
Subtitle: the Life of Jakab Harsányi Nagy
By: by Gábor Kármán
Series: The history of Oriental studies -- volume 2; History of Oriental studies -- v. 2.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9789004294271
Subjects: Friends and associates; Diplomats; Asianists; Study and teaching; Teachers; Babıâli (Istanbul, Turkey); Secretaries; Biography; History
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: The beginnings of an ecclesiastical career; title: In the service of the prince; title: Years of turmoil; title: The court councillor of the Great Elector; title: The bureaucrat and the intellectual; title: Harsanyi's changing image of the Turks; title: Instead of a conclusion; title: Appendix 1: Known copies of the colloquia; title: Appendix 2: A glossary of place names from the eastern half of Europe.