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Vambery, Arminius

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Vambery, Arminius or Hermann (väm`bārĭ), Hung. Ármin Vámbéry (är`mĭn), 1832–1913, Hungarian philologist and traveler. In Constantinople (1857–63) he learned several languages and dialects of Asia Minor and then traveled through Armenia and Persia in the dress of a native. He was a professor of Oriental languages at the Univ. of Budapest from 1865 to 1905 and wrote many books on his travels and on languages and ethnology.

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See his autobiography (1884) and his memoirs, The Story of My Struggles (1904), both in English.



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