Name

Kégl Sándor

Original name

Main activity

Scholar

Secondary activity

Historian

Title

Name variations

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Education place

Budapest

Education institution

University of Budapest

Activity place

Budapest

Activity institution

University of Budapest

Activity start date

Activity end date

Place of birth

Kiskunlacháza

Date of birth

1862

Place of death

Kiskunlacháza

Date of death

1920

Bibliographical references

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Sándor Kégl (1862-1920) was a Hungarian literary historian and expert in Iranian studies. He studied Turkish, Persian, and Arabic at the University of Budapest and Hindi and Sanskrit at the universities of Wien, Paris, Cambridge, and Oxford. He was the first to prepare the catalog of Persian, Turkish, and Arabic manuscripts in the library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His private library which amounted to about 11.000 volumes, among them 59 Persian manuscripts, was donated to the library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences by his brother, János Kégl in 1925.

Entry author

Gyöngyi Oroszi