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Zichy Jenő

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1837

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1906

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Jenő Zichy (1837–1906) was a Hungarian count, explorer, and major patron of Oriental scholarship who played a decisive role in the development of Hungarian Turkology and broader Eastern studies in the late 19th century. Motivated by questions of Hungarian origins, he financed and organized scientific expeditions to the Caucasus and Central Asia, bringing together linguists, ethnographers, and historians and publishing their results in scholarly volumes, often in connection with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Beyond exploration, Zichy was an avid collector: his private library contained key works on Islam, Oriental history, geography, and philology, many of which later entered public collections.

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Gyöngyi Oroszi