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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ármin Vámbéry has received more than 193,513 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ármin Vámbéry is the 77th most popular explorer (up from 79th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 23rd 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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  • 63.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Ármin Vámbéry ranks 77 out of 498. Before him are Willem Schouten, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Richard Francis Burton, Hernando de Soto, William Dampier, and Jeanne Baret. After him are Diego Columbus, Lope de Aguirre, Willem Janszoon, Stepan Makarov, Juan Díaz de Solís, and James Clark Ross.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Ármin Vámbéry ranks 16. Before him are Ivan Shishkin, José Echegaray, William Crookes, Louisa May Alcott, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, and Jules Ferry. After him are George, King of Saxony, Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, Andrew Dickson White, Osman Nuri Pasha, Michel Bréal, and Felice Beato. Among people deceased in 1913, Ármin Vámbéry ranks 17. Before him are Tobias Asser, August Bebel, Josephine Cochrane, Harriet Tubman, Philip Sclater, and Francisco I. Madero. After him are Katsura Tarō, Lewis A. Swift, Blanche Monnier, Gustaf de Laval, Alfred Redl, and Emily Davison.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Ármin Vámbéry ranks 18 out of 418. Before him are Robert Fico (1964), Béla I of Hungary (1016), Ivan Gašparovič (1941), Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795), Maurice Benyovszky (1746), and Vladimír Mečiar (1942). After him are Vojtech Tuka (1880), Tibor Sekelj (1912), Jozef Gabčík (1912), Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880), Zuzana Čaputová (1973), and Rudolf Schuster (1934).

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Among EXPLORERS In Slovakia

Among explorers born in Slovakia, Ármin Vámbéry ranks 1. 

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