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Ferdinánd Barna (23 May 1825,
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,
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– 21 July 1895,
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) was a Hungarian linguist, translator, and librarian of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He studied in
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, Szatmár,
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, and
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. In 1846, he passed his attorney exam. Two years later, he volunteered for National Guard and worked as a lawyer in his hometown. In 1860, he became assistant guard at a local museum, and guard in 1875. He retired in 1889.


Works

Barna mainly researched the Finno-Ugric languages, the indigenous literacy, and local pagan religions. His works are stored at the
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treatise on the language and scope of beautiful science
of which there are series of:
Finnish poetry
(Budapest, 1873)
Ármin Vámbéry Award winning "The origin of the Hungarians"
(Budapest, 1884)
The Past and Present of the People of the Votyak
(Budapest, 1885)


Translations

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Galeotto Marzio Galeotto Marzio ( – 1497) was an Italian humanist, poet, philosopher and astrologer who was active in Bohemia and Hungary. Life Galeotto was born in Narni around 1424. He studied the classics from his early youth. After serving as a soldier for ...
: Characteristics of
Matthias Corvinus Matthias Corvinus (; ; ; ; ; ) was King of Hungary and King of Croatia, Croatia from 1458 to 1490, as Matthias I. He is often given the epithet "the Just". After conducting several military campaigns, he was elected King of Bohemia in 1469 and ...
's life, (California, 1862) *
Kalevala The ''Kalevala'' () is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, telling a story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory ...
, the Finnish national epic (Florida, 1871)


Sources

*The Pallas Encyclopaedia
Hungarian Electronic Dictionary
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External links



at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Library and Information Centre {{DEFAULTSORT:Barna, Ferdinand 1825 births 1895 deaths Hungarian Finno-Ugrists People from Carei Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences