Kőrösi Csoma Sándor - Terjék J. (szerk.): Grammar of the Tibetan language - Collected works of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös 2. (Budapest, 1984)

tige, the high scholarly and moral standards he stood for, contributed greatly to the Society’s becoming the true measure of scholarship in Hungary. What inspired him is still a source of inspiration to Hungarian Orientalists today. In Hungary, Oriental studies are ethnic studies: the study, for instance, of the history of Hungary’s peoples before the Conquest, of her Eastern ethnic elements (Cumanians, Khabars, Pechenegs), and of the period of Ottoman occupation so decisive for the country’s mediaeval history. True heirs of Alexander Csorna de Kőrös, Hungarian Orientalists such as Ármin Vámbéry, Ignác Goldziher, Sir Aurel Stein, and Julius Németh have carried on in his spirit. Csorna de Kőrös—his integrity, his persistent faith, and his enduring love of his native land—has been and continues to be an example to his countrymen. Today, as we celebrate this bicentenary, we can pay him no better tribute than to quote the lines the Hungarian Academy of Sciences had inscribed on his tombstone in Darjeeling in 1909, on the 125th anniversary of his birth: “A great man of Eastern linguistics to all the world; an eternal example of patriotism and scholarly self-sacrifice to us, his compatriots.” János Szentágothai President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Ü

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