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ARMINIUS, or HER- MANN, a Hungarian traveler and Orientalist; born in Szerdahely, Hungary, March 19, 1832. Escaping from the tailor's bench to which his family would have condemned him, he succeeded amid much privation and hardship in laying the foundations of wide linguistic scholarship, first under the Piarists of St. Georgen near Pressburg, and afterward at Vienna and Pest. He was a strong believer in the regenerative power of Western civilization and was almost as strongly a partisan of English as opposed to Russian influence. Besides the narrative of his great great journey, jo which appeared in German, English, and Hungarian, in 1865, he published "German- Turkish Dictionary" (1858); "Abuschka: Turkish - Hungarian Dictionary (1861); "A Study of the Turkish Language" (1867); "Sketches in Central Asia" (1867); "Central Asian and Anglo-Russian Frontier Question" (Lond. 1874); "Ethics of the East" (Berl. 1876); "Etymological Dictionary of the Turco-Tartar Tongue" (Leip. 1877). He died in 1913.