kinship, and considered the Hungarians (and their language) a mixture of Turkic and Hyperborean / i.e. Saami, Samoyed etc. / elements. Nonetheless, Vámbéry's theory was opposed by proponents of the Finno-Ugric theory of the origins of Hungarian, who gradually triumphed in Hungary but not in Turkey. In Turkey, Hungarian and Turkish are still considered as two branches of the same language family, the Ural-Altaic. Vámbéry was acquainted with Bram Stoker, during a stay in London, and Stoker claimed him as his consultant, and as relayer of Balkan folklore inspirator of main antagonist character Dracula and, of course, the book's title. The character of Professor Van Helsing in Stoker's novel, Dracula, is sometimes said to be based on Vámbéry, though Stoker was likely inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu's Dr. Hesselius. In the novel (chapters 18 and 23) Van Helsing refers to his "friend Arminius, of Buda-Pesth University". His son, Rustem Vambery, briefly served as Hungary's ambassador to the United States after World War II. Publications "Deutsch-Türkisches Taschenwörterbuch" (Constantinople, 1858) [German-Turkish Pocket Dictionary] "Abuska," a Turkish-Chagatai dictionary (Budapest, 1861) "Reise in Mittelasien" (Leipzig, 1865, 2d ed. 1873) [Travel in Middle Asia] "Cagataische Sprachstudien" (ib. 1867) [Chagatai Language Studies] (Ćagataische sprachstudien, enthaltend grammatikalischen umriss, chrestomathie, und wörterbuch der ćagataischen sprache;) "Meine Wanderungen und Erlebnisse in Persien" (ib. 1867) - Wanderings and Adventures in Persia [My Wanderings and Experiences in Persia] "Skizzen aus Mittelasien" (ib. 1868) - Sketches of Central Asia "Uigurische Sprachmonumente und das Kudatku-Bilik" (Innsbruck, 1870) "Uigurisch-Türkische Wortvergleichungen" (Budapest, 1870) "Geschichte Bocharas" (2 vols., Stuttgart, 1872) - History of Bokhara (1873) "Der Islam im Neunzehnten Jahrhundert" (Leipzig, 1875) [Islam in the Nineteenth Century] "Sittenbilder aus dem Morgenlande" (Berlin, 1876) - Manners in Oriental Countries "Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Turkotatarischen Sprachen" (Leipzig, 1878) [Etymological Dictionary of the Turko-Tatar Languages] "Die Primitive Cultur des Turkotatarischen Volkes" (ib. 1879) - Primitive Civilization of the Turko-Tatar People "Der Ursprung der Magyaren" (ib. 1882) - Origin of the Magyars "Das Türkenvolk" (ib. 1885)- The Turkish People "Die Scheïbaniade, ein Oezbegisches Heldengedicht", text and translation (Budapest, 1885) "Story of Hungary" (London, 1887) "A Magyarság Keletkezése és Gyarapodása" (Budapest, 1895) "Travels and Adventures of the Turkish Admiral Sidi Ali Reis in India, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and Persia During the Years 1553-1556", a translation from the Turkish (ib. 1899) "Alt-Osmanische Sprachstudien" (Leyden, 1901) [Old-Ottoman (Turkish) Language Studies] "?" - Western Culture in Eastern Lands (1906) On political subjects, Vámbéry wrote: "Russlands