A seventeenth-century odyssey in East Central Europe : the life of Jakab Harsányi Nagy
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A seventeenth-century odyssey in East Central Europe : the life of Jakab Harsányi Nagy
（The history of Oriental studies / editors, Alastair Hamilton, Jan Loop, v. 2）
Brill, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey Gabor Karman reconstructs the life story of a lesser-known Hungarian orientalist, Jakab Harsanyi 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. Gabor Karman also gives the first historical analysis of Harsanyi's contribution to Turkish studies, the Colloquia Familiaria Turcico-latina (1672).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
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 Harsanyi's Changing Image of the Turks
Conclusion
Appendix 1 Known Copies of the Colloquia
Appendix 2 A Glossary of Place Names from the Eastern Half of Europe
Bibliography
Index
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