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Ármin Vámbéry

1832 - 1913

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Ármin Vámbéry (born Hermann Wamberger; 19 March 1832 – 15 September 1913), also known as Arminius Vámbéry, was a Hungarian Turkologist and traveller. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ármin Vámbéry is the 77th most popular explorer, the 19th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 18th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Explorer.

Armin Vámbéry was a Hungarian-born explorer and writer. He is most famous for his 1866 book, "Travels in Central Asia," which detailed his travels in the Ottoman Empire and Persia.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Ármin Vámbéry ranks 77 out of 498. Before him are Alonso de Ojeda, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Pêro da Covilhã, Willem Schouten, John Smith, and Diogo Dias. After him are Juan Díaz de Solís, Xu Fu, Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, Richard Francis Burton, Stepan Makarov, and Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Ármin Vámbéry ranks 15. Before him are Gustave Doré, José Echegaray, Edward Burnett Tylor, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, William Crookes, and Ivan Shishkin. After him are Horatio Alger, Andrew Dickson White, George, King of Saxony, Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow, and Jules Ferry. Among people deceased in 1913, Ármin Vámbéry ranks 18. Before him are Alfred von Schlieffen, August Bebel, Sophia of Nassau, Philip Sclater, Josephine Cochrane, and Francisco I. Madero. After him are Lewis A. Swift, Reginald Lee, Alfred Redl, Katsura Tarō, Mariano Rampolla, and Louis Paul Cailletet.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Ármin Vámbéry ranks 19 out of 418. Before him are Ivan Gašparovič (1941), Juraj Jánošík (1688), Tibor Sekelj (1912), Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795), Maurice Benyovszky (1746), and Vladimír Mečiar (1942). After him are Jozef Gabčík (1912), Vojtech Tuka (1880), Ernst von Dohnányi (1877), Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880), Ľudovít Štúr (1815), and Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734).

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Among EXPLORERS In Slovakia

Among explorers born in Slovakia, Ármin Vámbéry ranks 1. 

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