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A seventeenth-century odyssey in East Central Europe : the life of Jakab Harsanyi Nagy / by Gabor Karman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: History of Oriental studiesPublisher: Leiden : Brill, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004306813
  • 9004306811
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Seventeenth-century odyssey in East Central EuropeDDC classification:
  • 943.9/041092 23
LOC classification:
  • CT968.H377 K27 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The beginnings of an ecclesiastical career -- In the service of the prince -- Years of turmoil -- The court councillor of the Great Elector -- The bureaucrat and the intellectual -- Harsanyi'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.
Scope and content: "In A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey G�abor K�arm�an reconstructs the life story of a lesser-known Hungarian orientalist, Jakab Hars�anyi 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. G�abor K�arm�an also gives the first historical analysis of Hars�anyi's contribution to Turkish studies, the Colloquia Familiaria Turcico-latina (1672)"--Provided by publisher.
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"In A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey G�abor K�arm�an reconstructs the life story of a lesser-known Hungarian orientalist, Jakab Hars�anyi 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. G�abor K�arm�an also gives the first historical analysis of Hars�anyi's contribution to Turkish studies, the Colloquia Familiaria Turcico-latina (1672)"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The beginnings of an ecclesiastical career -- In the service of the prince -- Years of turmoil -- The court councillor of the Great Elector -- The bureaucrat and the intellectual -- Harsanyi'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.

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