HEVESY, Vilmos (Wilhelm von Hevesy, orig. W. Bischitz). 1877 — 1945. Hungarian Electric Engineer interested in Linguistics. Son of Ludwig (Lajos) David Bischitz (1851–1920), 1895 title of nobility as Bisicz de Heves, from 1906 Hevesy de Heves, and Eugenie (Jenny) Schossberger de Tornya, brother of the Nobel prize chemist György/Georg von Hevesy (1885–1966). Served as Captain in WW I. In the 1930s living in Paris. He made an unsuccesful attempt to find genetic connection between Muṇḍa and Finno-Ugrian. It was commonly rejected, but at least taken as a serious attempt. He also compared the Rongorongo script of Easter Island to the signs of Indus seals. A promoter of Hungarian Turanism.
Publications: Under pseudonym F. E. Uxband: Munda–Magyar–Maori. An Indian link between the Antipodes. New Tracks of Hungarian Origins. 12+432 p. L. 1928.
– Finnisch-Ugrisches aus Indien. Es gibt keine austrische Sprachfamilie. Das vorarische Indien teilweise Finnisch-Ugrisch. 8+383 p. Vienna 1932.
– “On W. Schmidt’s Munda–Mon Khmer Comparisons”, BSOS 6:1, 1930, 187-200; “Zur Frage der austrischen Sprachfamilie und der indischen Mundasprachen”, OLZ 37, 1934, 475-478; “Munda Tongues: Finno-Ugrian”, JBORS 21, 1935, 107-120; “Neue Finnisch-Ugrische Sprachen (Die Mundasprachen Indiens)”, Atti del Congresso di Linguistica … Roma 1933. Florence 1935, 275-284; “Zur Verwandtschaft der Munda-Sprachen”, OLZ 39, 1936, 273-288.
– “Osterinselschrift und Indusschrift”, OLZ 37, 1934, 665-674; “The Easter Island and the Indus Valley Scripts”, Anthropos 33, 1938, 808- 814, and other articles.
– As Guillaume de H.: “Sur la non-existence de la famille des langues austriques et sur le finno-ougrien dans l’Inde”, JA 225, 1934, 143-145; “Noms ouraliens d’animaux dans l’Inde”, JA 229, 1937, 129-139; “Ob-Ougriens de Sibérie et Munda de l’Inde”, L’Anthropologie 46, 1936, 613-624.
Sources: Not in Bethlenfalvy 1980; brother often in internet, where also his theories and articles are often mentioned, but hardly anything about his person.
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