Károly Újfalvy von Mezőkövesd explained

Birth Date:16 May 1842
Birth Place:Vienna
Death Place:Florence
Occupation:Ethnographer
Linguist

Károly Jenő Ujfalvy de Mezőkövesd (16 May 1842 – 31 January 1904) was a noted Austro-Hungarian ethnographic researcher and linguist. of Central Asia and the Himalayas. Also known as Charles de Ujfalvy in his adopted France, Ujfalvy traveled to Samarkand and Bokhara and led an expedition to Kashmir in 1880.[1]

He was born at Székelykövesd/Cuieşd, in Transylvania, and died at Florence.

Ujfalvy also published under the following names: Mezőkövesdi Ujfalvy Károly Jenő, or Karl Eugen Ujfalvy von Mezőkövesd, Charles-Eugène Ujfalvy de Mezökövesd, or Mező-Kövesd.

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  1. Book: Khan, Omar . From Kashmir to Kabul: the photographs of John Burke and William Baker, 1860-1900 . 2002 . Book Site. London . 74.