Materials for a history of Hungarian academic orientalism: The case of Gyula Germanus

dc.contributor.author	Mestyan, A
dc.date.accessioned	2016-08-02T13:17:16Z
dc.date.issued	2014-01-01
dc.description.abstract	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.© 2014 koninklijke brill nv, leiden.
dc.identifier.issn	0043-2539
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10161/12574
dc.publisher	Brill
dc.relation.ispartof	Welt des Islams
dc.relation.isversionof	10.1163/15700607-00541p02
dc.title	Materials for a history of Hungarian academic orientalism: The case of Gyula Germanus
dc.type	Journal article
duke.contributor.orcid	Mestyan, A\|0000-0002-5945-6147
pubs.begin-page	4
pubs.end-page	33
pubs.issue	1
pubs.organisational-group	Duke
pubs.organisational-group	History
pubs.organisational-group	Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
pubs.publication-status	Published
pubs.volume	54

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