John Repiczky

* Újbars, April 23, 1817 – † Pest, March 25, 1855 / librarian, orientalist, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1847) ; ; He completed his secondary schooling in Korpona, Selmecbánya, and studied theology at the Bratislava Evangelical Lyceum. Here he delved into Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Turkish, and his teacher named Tamaskó also introduced him to the elements of Sanskrit. In 1842 he studied in Tübingen. He devoted all his time to the in-depth study of Eastern languages and all sciences, literature, geography and ethnography, humanities and religions, history and poetry relating to the East. Upon returning home, he was given a job in the library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, although he considered the academy's Arabic grammar worthy of publication. His Arabic poem, which he wrote and printed on the occasion of the opening of the Pyrker Gallery, caused a stir and he was forced to leave the capital and look for a home tutoring position in the countryside. In December 1847, he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1851, he became a private tutor of oriental languages at the University of Pest. At the suggestion of the Academy, the presidency entrusted him with the collection and translation of Turkish-Hungarian historical sources, with a special reward. The fruits of this work were: the register of Viennese manuscripts relating to historiography from the Turkish-Hungarian period, copies and translations of Turkish letters from Jászberény, an extract from Naima's Turkish history, from which the most interesting parts, such as the history of the Peace of Zsitvatorok, the siege of Hatvan and Eger, etc. he also read out, the anonymous Hungarian memoirs of Dsáfer Pasha, the extracts from the Derbend-náme and Dselalzadé, Turkish letters from Leva, the parts of Emperor Suleiman's diary concerning the Hungarian campaigns: a whole small Turkish-Hungarian document library. Szeladeddin's history, which remained in manuscript, worked from Eastern sources and also from medieval Christian reports. ; ; His main works: ; Eastern lessons, 1848, ; The parallels of the Persian and Sanskrit languages (Academic Bulletin), 1850, ; Practical Turkish grammar, 1851, ; Turkish letters from the city of Nagy-Kőrös (published by Sándor Szilágyi), 1859.