A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey in East Central Europe

The Life of Jakab Harsányi Nagy
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29427-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 580 g

Reihe: The History of Oriental Studies

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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kármán, Gábor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Harsányi’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

Über Autor(innen)

Gábor Kármán, Ph. D. (2009), Eötvös Loránd University, is a research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of History (Budapest). He is also the author of a monograph on Transylvanian foreign policy after 1648 (in Hungarian).