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

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

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 e...

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Main Author: Kármán, Gábor.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Brill, 2016.

Series: The History of Oriental Studies 2.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303935.

Subjects:

Harsányi Nagy, Jakab, > 1615-approximately 1677.
Friedrich Wilhelm, > Elector of Brandenburg, > 1620-1688 > Friends and associates.
Babıâli (Istanbul, Turkey) > History.
Asianists > Hungary > Biography.
Secretaries > Moldavia > Biography.
Diplomats > Hungary > Biography.
Diplomats > Turkey > Istanbul > Biography.
Hungary > History > 17th century > Biography.
Transylvania (Romania) > History > 17th century > Biography.
Turkey > Study and teaching > History > 17th century.

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Call Number: CT968.H377 K27 2016

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 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
  • Instead of a Conclusion
  • Appendix 1 Known Copies of the Colloquia
  • Appendix 2 A Glossary of Place Names from the Eastern Half of Europe
  • Bibliography
  • Index.