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Full Name
Kőrösi Csoma Sándor – or as he signed his English letters, Alexander Csoma de Kőrös. (Source Accessed October 19, 2011)
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See his detailed biography here (includes bibliography) - Source Accessed October 19, 2011
Csoma de Kőrös' education and biographical information are rather complex and the above website does an excellent job of describing his life. Marcus 12:08, 19 October 2011 (EDT)
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Kőrösi Csoma Sándor – or as he signed his English letters, Alexander Csoma de Kőrös – was born in 1784, or, according to the most recent research, perhaps in 1787 or 1788[1] in Transylvania, in the village of Kőrös, part of Háromszék county (today Chiurus, Romania). He began his studies in the village school. Upon completion of these studies, he did not enter the almost life-long service of border-warden, compulsory for men in this frontier zone of Transylvania, but rather – thanks to the intervention of his father – he was allowed to continue his education in the Bethlenianum of Nagyenyed (today Ajud, Romania), the renowned Protestant college of Transylvania. Csoma was sent there by his father to study, more than 300 km from his native Kőrös. probably in order to take advantage of the free education offered by the college. Read more...
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- ↑ The precise date of Csoma’s birth is uncertain. Most of his biographers give the date as April 4, 1784, but according to recent research this entry in the register of Kőrös might have referred to his older brother, who was baptized with the same name and died within a short time. Cf. Bernard Le Calloc’h, “Mikor született tulajdonképpen Kőrösi Csoma Sándor?” [When was S. K. Cs really born?], in: Kőrösi Csoma Sándor és a magyar keletkutatás, [S. K. Cs. and Hungarian Oriental Scholarship] pp. 7-12, Sepsiszentgyörgy, 2004.