TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kármán,Gábor
TI  - A seventeenth-century odyssey in East Central Europe: the life of Jakab Harsanyi Nagy 
T2  - The history of Oriental studies,
SN  - 9789004306813
AV  - CT968.H377 K27 2016
U1  - 943.9/041092B 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Harsányi Nagy, Jakab,
KW  - Friedrich Wilhelm,
KW  - Babıâli (Istanbul, Turkey)
KW  - History
KW  - Asianists
KW  - Hungary
KW  - Biography
KW  - Secretaries
KW  - Moldavia
KW  - Diplomats
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Istanbul
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Transylvania (Romania)
KW  - Study and teaching
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 The Beginnings of an Ecclesiastical Career -- 2 In the Service of the Prince -- 3 Years of Turmoil -- 4 The Court Councillor of the Great Elector -- 5 The Bureaucrat and the Intellectual -- 6 Harsányi’s Changing Image of the Turks -- Instead of a Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Known Copies of the Colloquia -- Appendix 2 A Glossary of Place Names from the Eastern Half of Europe -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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)
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004306813
ER  -