Materials for a History of Hungarian Academic Orientalism: The Case of Gyula Germanus
This article provides materials for an institutional history of academic Hungarian Orientalism through the life of Gyula Germanus (1884-1979). Using hitherto unexploited archives, this text explores his education, integration into academia, and career up to 1939. I argue that Germanus was an assimil...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2014
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Die Welt des Islams
Jahr: 2014, Band: 54, Heft: 1, Seiten: 4-33 |
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Orientalism
Germanus
Goldziher
Vámbéry
Hungary
conversion
pilgrimage
PEN Club
Islam
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| Zusammenfassung: | This article provides materials for an institutional history of academic Hungarian Orientalism through the life of Gyula Germanus (1884-1979). Using hitherto unexploited archives, this text explores his education, integration into academia, and career up to 1939. I argue that Germanus was an assimilated Hungarian of Jewish origin with a strong loyalty to the state. His two conversions – to Calvinism in 1909 and to Islam in 1930 – also transformed him from a minor Turkologist into a popularly acclaimed Arabist. This study demonstrates that academic Orientalism as a national science was a contested vehicle of social mobility in the Hungarian transition from an imperial to a nation-state setting.
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| ISSN: | 1570-0607 |
| Enthält: | In: Die Welt des Islams
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700607-00541p02 |