Károly Újfalvy von Mezőkövesd
Károly Jenő Ujfalvy de Mezőkövesd (Vienna, May 16, 1842. - Florence, January 31, 1904) was a noted Austro-Hungarian ethographic researcher and linguist. of Central Asia and the Himalayas. Also known as Charles de Ujfalvy in his adopted France, Ujfalvy traveled to Samarkand and Bokhara and led an expedition to the Kashmir in 1880.[1]
He was born at Székelykövesd/Cuieşd, in Transylvania, and died at Florence.
Ujfalvy also published under the following names: Mezőkövesdi Újfalvy Károly Jenő, or Karl Eugen Újfalvy von Mezőkövesd, Charles-Eugène Ujfalvy de Mezökövesd, or Mező-Kövesd.
Literary works
- Êtude comparée des langues ougrofinnoise (1875)
- Grammaire finnoise (1876)
- Expédition scientifique française en Russe, en Sibérie et dans le Turkestan (6 vols., 1878-1880)
- Aus dem westlichen Himalaja (1884)
References
- ↑ Khan, Omar (2002). From Kashmir to Kabul: the photographs of John Burke and William Baker, 1860-1900. London: Book Site. p. 74.
External links
- http://www.mek.ro/02100/02115/html/5-960.html (Hungarian)
- A MAGYAROK ÉS A KELET-KUTATÁS at www.kiszely.hu (Hungarian)
- Magyarország a XX. században / Európai és magyar nyelvtudomány at mek.oszk.hu (Hungarian)
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