15.10.2015 The exhibition "Hungarian Orientalists".
On 15th October, 2015 at 16.00 Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan jointly with the Consulate General of Hungary in Almaty, on the eve of the national holiday "Day of the proclamation of the Republic of Hungary" (23rd October) opens the exhibition "Hungarian Orientalists".
The East for Hungarians has always meant something more than just a geographical name. XIX century was the century of the Magyars to the search its own roots. Hungarian tribes roamed over a thousand years in the steppes. During this time they were in contact with many nations and the great movement of nomadic communities. Therefore, the Hungarians believe that the peoples of Asia as their relatives and friends. The Hungarian travelers and scholars played a significant role in the study of history, language, religion, cultural traditions of the Eastern peoples. As a result of centuries of studies was created Hungarian school of Orientalists and Oriental study formed into an independent scientific discipline.
A research as part of expeditions to the Middle East and North Africa has had a great influence on the performance of each of the scientist-orientalist. The founder of modern Western Islamic sciences is Ignaz Goldziher, who has made a significant contribution to the study of Arabic and Semitic philology. Prominent scientists in the study of Arabic, Persian, Assyrian and other Eastern sources concerning Eastern nations is D’ule Germanusu, Karoi Tcegledi, Geza Fehérvári. One of the prominent figures in the field of Egyptology was Laszlo Kakoshi. Hungarian scientists have made a significant contribution to the study and description of geographical, geological issuer of the flora and fauna of the African continent. Many scientists specialized in Iranian studies - Shandor Kegl, Zhsigmond Telegdi, Karoi Revitsky.
Special interest for outstanding Hungarian historians, linguists and cultural experts was the Central Asia. Among them is Armin Vambery, who systemized Central Asian Turkic languages. Collected complex of linguistic, historical, folklore and poetry, ethnographic materials of D’erdya Almasi, Istvan Mandoki Kongur, Torma Jozsef are especially valuable. The study of language, history, culture and geography of their ancestors became the main area of his research. The founder of the Hungarian Armenian Studies is Eden Schutz, who made a great contribution in the field of publications, presented in Armenian of Kipchak sources. Shandor Kereshi Choma is a renowned Tibetologist, the first Buddhist scriptures translator into a European language. The archaeological heritage of the Silk Road and culture investigated by Aurel Stein.
Southeast Asia and Oceania in the field of view of the Hungarians were relatively laterin the XIX century. In the first half of the XX century in Korea, a number of scientists conducted ethnographic and linguistic research - Bishop Peter Wai, Baratoshi Benedek Balog, Ferenc and Károly Martonfi Fendler. Manuscript legacy of many prominent and recognized by Hungarian researchers of the East, is kept in the Library of the world-famous Hungarian Academy of Sciences, founded in 1826 (vice-president Lajos Ligeti).
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The exhibition will run until 25th October, 2015.
