TAMASKÓ, István (Štefan Ján Tamaško). Pozsony (Bratislava, Slovakia) 16.2.1801 — ibid. 26.1.1881. Hungarian (Slovak by birth) Schoolteacher interested in Sanskrit. Studied 1822-23 Protestant theology in Vienna, in 1828-30 further studies at Göttingen, now learned Sanskrit and Arabic from Ewald. Teacher in Pozsony. Professor at the German-language Lutheran Lycaeum in Pozsony from 1838 until retirement in 1892. Also interested in theology.
Publications: Diss. De causis linguae Sanscriticae. 35 p. Bratislava 1831.
– Translations from the Rigveda (from Lassen, in Pozsony Gymn. Programm 1860) and Dhammapada (in Latin).
– Also translated Arabic and Hungarian poetry into Latin.
Sources: Briefly Bethlenfalvy 1980, 13, Wojtilla 1977, 177, and Jan Reychman, “Z zagadnień Słowackiej orientalistyki”, Przegląd Orientalistyczny 3 (59), 1966, 238; *Á. Thewrewk, EPhK 5, 1881, 177-191, 275-293 (in Hungarian?); Kdo byl kdo – čeští a slovenští orientalisté; hunektar.sk; *Hungarian Wikipedia.
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