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A noted Hungarian traveler, Orientalist, and historian, now professor at BudaPesth; born at Szerdahely, March 19, 1832. He lived many years in Constantinople, and traveled largely in Asia. Among his works are: "Travels in Central Asia" (1865); "Wanderings and Adventures in Persia" (1867); "Sketches of Central Asia" (1868); "History of Bokhara" (1873); "Central Asia and the Russian Boundary Question"; "Islam in the Nineteenth Century" (1875); "Manners in Oriental Countries" (1876); "Primitive Civilization of the Turko-Tartar People" (1879); "Origin of the Magyars" (1882); "The Future Contest for India" (1886); and various linguistic works, including a "German-Turkish Dictionary", and "Etymological Dictionary of the Turko-Tartar Languages" (1878).