A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey in East Central Europe: The Life of Jakab Harsányi Nagy: The Life of Jakab Harsányi Nagy (History of Oriental Studies, 2) - Hardcover

"In A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey Gâabor Kâarmâan reconstructs the life story of a lesser-known Hungarian orientalist, Jakab Harsâanyi 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. Gâabor Kâarmâan also gives the first historical analysis of Harsâanyi's contribution to Turkish studies, the Colloquia Familiaria Turcico-latina (1672)"--Provided by publisher.

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).