Sándor Kőrösi Csoma
Philologist, Author
1784 – 1842
Who was Sándor Kőrösi Csoma?
Sándor Csoma de Kőrös, born Csoma Sándor was a Hungarian philologist and Orientalist, author of the first Tibetan-English dictionary and grammar book. He was called Phyi-glin-gi-grwa-pa in Tibetan, meaning "the foreign pupil" and was given the title of Bosatsu or Boddhisatva by the Japanese in 1933. He was born in Kőrös, Grand Principality of Transylvania. His birth date is often given as 4 April, although this is actually his baptism day and the year of his birth is debated by some authors who put it at 1787 or 1788 rather than 1784. The Magyar ethnic group, the Székelys, to which he belonged believed that they were derived from a branch of Attila's Huns who had settled in Transylvania in the fifth century. Hoping to study the claim and to find the place of origin of the Székelys and the Magyars by studying language kinship, he set off to Asia in 1820 and spent his lifetime studying the Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy. Csoma de Kőrös is considered as the founder of Tibetology. He was said to have been able to read in seventeen languages.
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- Born
- Mar 27, 1784
Kórós - Also known as
- Sandor Korosi Csoma
- Csoma Sándor
- Alexander Csoma de Kőrös
- Alexander Csoma De Koros
- Ethnicity
- Székelys
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Profession
- Education
- University of Göttingen
- Lived in
- Covasna County
- Died
- Apr 11, 1842
Darjeeling
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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