Name

Szilády Áron

Original name

Main activity

Reformed minister

Secondary activity

Linguist, Historian, Orientalist

Title

Name variations

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Education place

Debrecen; Göttingen

Education institution

Activity place

Kiskunhalas

Activity institution

Activity start date

Activity end date

Place of birth

Ságvár

Date of birth

1837

Place of death

Kiskunhalas

Date of death

1922

Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Szilády Áron (1837-1922) was a Hungarian linguist, literary historian, and Orientalist. He mastered many languages, among them Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew. He studied theology in Debrecen, then he went to Göttingen. After his studies, he returned to Hungary and worked as a reformed minister in various places, then he settled in Kiskunhalas.

Entry author

Gyöngyi Oroszi