Ármin Vámbéry (1832-1913) as a Historian of Early Hungarian Settlement in the Carpathian Basin
N. F. Dreisziger
In the English-speaking world Ármin Vámbéry is known as a traveler in Central Asia and student of Turkic cultures languages. his native Hungary he also for disagreement with linguists who believed that Hungarian belonged to Ugric branch Finno-Ugric languages—a part Uralic linguistic family. Rather than accepting this theory, contended was largely language more Altaic Few people know expressed strong opinions about genesis nation. The most important aspect Vámbéry’s theory origins thesis ethnogenesis took place—beginning late Roman times or even earlier—in Carpathian Basin. A corollary proposition nomadic tribes conquered Basin at end ninth century were peoples few numbers assimilated by region’s autochthonous—and then Hungarian-speaking—population. This paper outlines arguments describes what extent research on subject since death has confirmed contradicted unconventional ideas.
Hungarian Cultural Studies