VAIVIBERY, ARMINIUS (1832—).
An Hungarian traveler and Orientalist, born at Szerdabely, near Pressburg. Ile was largely self-educated. In 1854 he went to Constanti nople as a private tutor, where he acquired a knowledge of Eastern languages, later becoming private secretary to Fuad Pasha. With the assistance of the Hungarian Academy he trav eled through Armenia and Persia from 1861 till 1864, visiting Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarkand. On his return to Europe he was appointed pro fessor of Oriental languages at the University of Budapest. The literary activity of VfiinWry was confined, in the main, to the Ural-Altaic linguistic stocks, especially the Turkish. Among hi, numerous works the most important are: Travels and Adventures in Central Agin (2.1 ed. 1873) ; 1feint Wanderungen und Erlebnisse in Pcrsien (1867) ; Cagataische Sprachst when. (1867) ; Elymolugisches It'drIcrbuch der turko tatarisehen Sprachcie (1878) ; It win a ische Spt:achslailien (1901) ; editions of the Kudatken (1870) and the Scheibaniade (1885) ; and the geographical, political, and historical books: Skizzot. (ins Mit tc/asi( 1868) Rugg/ands
ilachtstcllung in .1.sien acsch ich Molt, anis oder 7'ransoraniens (1872) ; Ce-ntr•ahr.alea unit die englisch-russische Grenzfrage Dcr Islam inn neumn 'infra rt (187.1) ; Sittenbilder ass dem Morgenlande Primitive Kultur des turko-lat‘zriselicn Volkes (1878) ; Ursin-ung der ilagyarrn ( 1882) : Des Tiirkenvolk (1885) ; The coining Struggle for India (1885) ; The Story of Hungary (1886) ; and A magyarsay keletkez('se gaunt ',midst'. (1895). Consult his autobiographical .toniniug Viimbery; His Life and Adventures (7th ed., London, 1889).