Hungarian Émigrés, Turkish Turanists: Some Remarks on Vámbéry’s Social Network from Constantinople to Budapest
Hungarian Émigrés, Turkish Turanists: Some Remarks on Vámbéry’s Social Network from Constantinople to Budapest

Summary/Abstract: Our study shows two aspects of Ármin Vámbéry’s social network. In the first part, we will show how the Hungarian emigrants of 1848–1849 helped him during his first stay in Constantinople and how he established a relationship with the Ottoman elite through them. Moreover, he also owed his easy access to the academic circles in London to the same émigré circle. In the second half we focus on Vámbéry’s involvement in different scientific and civil organizations through which he managed to boost the diffusion of Turanism in Hungary and the Turkish-Hungarian bilateral relations.

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