Beschreibung:

XII, 638 S., 1 Bl. (Anzeige). 2 Tafeln in Xylographie. Gr.-8°. Mod. HLdr. mit Rückentitel.

Bemerkung:

Erste Ausgabe dieser auf Basis des Turanismus bzw. Panturismus stehenden wissenschaftlichen Beschreibung der Turkvölker, selten. - Behandelt werden die sibririschen Turkvölker (Darunter besonders die Jakuten), die mittelasiatischen Turkvölker (Uiguren, Kirgisen usw.), die "Wolga-Türken" (Tartaren, Tschuwaschen usw.), "Pontus-Türken" (besonders die Krim-Tartaren) und "West-Türken" (Azerbaidschaner und Osmanen). - "Arminus [Hermann] Vambery (1832 - 1913) was especially attracted by the literature and culture of Turkey, and in 1854 he was enabled, through the assistance of Baron Joseph Eötvös, to go to Constantinople. There he became a private tutor, and thus entered the household of usain Da`im Pasha, later becoming private secretary to Fuad Pasha. About this time he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in recognition of his translations of Turkish historians. Returning to Budapest in 1861, he received a stipend of a thousand florins from the academy, and in the fall of the same year, disguised as a Sunnite dervish, and under the name of Rashid Effendi, he set out from Constantinople. His route lay from Trebizond to Teheran, via Erzerum, Tabriz, Zenjan, and Kazvin. He then went to Shiraz, through Ispahan, and in June, 1863, he reached Khiva, whence he went by way of Bokhara and Samarcand to Herat, returning through Meshed to Teheran and Trebizond. This was the first journey of its kind undertaken by a European; and since it was necessary to avoid suspicion, Vámbéry could not take even fragmentary notes, except by stealth. He returned to Europe in 1864, and received in the next year the appointment of professor of Oriental languages in the University of Budapest, retiring therefrom in 1905. Vámbéry became known also as a publicist, zealously defending the English policy in the East as against that of the Russians" (Jewish Encyclopedia). - Gebräunt.