Ervin Baktay
Ervin Baktay (1890–1963; born Ervin Gottesmann) was an author noted for popularizing Indian culture in Hungary. He had started his career as a painter and he encouraged his niece Amrita Sher-Gil to pursue art. Baktay gave up painting to study eastern religions and art, and became a renowned Indologist. Family. Ervin Baktay was uncle to artist Amrita Sher-Gil and nephew to Nagybánya artist Alfréd Gottesmann (1872–1965). Works. He translated the "Kama Sutra" in 1920 and then published a version of the "Mahābhārata" in 1923. In 1960, he produced a version of the "Ramayana". Ervin Baktay Ervin