J. Antall szerk.: Medical history in Hungary 1972. Presented to the XXIII. International Congress of the History of Medicine / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 6. (Budapest, 1972)

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. Artis Med. Suppl. 6.) was hardly anything written on him, except a note by Wilson published after his return to Oxford as professor of Sanskrit, in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, edited by himself.

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9 But even the modest Csoma could not find it satisfactory and made some corrections in his own copy of the journal. Unfortunately, however, Duka was unable to find this volume, only a letter written on 28 January 1825, where Csoma had put down the authentic data of his own life.

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0 One year and a half after Csoma's death Archibald Campbell, the British Agent in Bengal, who was present at the scholar's deathbed and performed the last religious service at his grave, urged the Asiatic Society of Bengal in a letter to prepare Csoma's biography. "It is now more than a year and a half since we lost him, but we are as yet without any such record in the Journal of the Society

, to show, that his labours were valuable to the literary Association, he so earnestly studied to assist in its most important objectsSuch a study would prove, he continued, that Csoma's zeal and efforts are duly appreciated by the Society.

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: Biographical Sketch of M. Alexander Csoma de Körösi, a Hungarian Traveller, extraced from a letter addressed by that gentleman to Captain C. P. Kennedy. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 1834. Vol. 1. p. 128. — Duka quoted a letter by Campbell who owned the book after Kőrösi's death. See Duka (44) p. 16. In addition one must mention Léon Feer's Analyse du Kandjour, recueil des livres sacrés du Tibet, par Alexandre Csoma de Körös. Traduit de l'anglais et augmenté de diverses additions et remarques par —. Musée Guimet. Annales, 2, Paris, 1881. Further works on Körösi Csoma appearing after 1885: Baktay, Ervin: Körösi Csoma Sándor. Budapest, 1962. — Debreczy, Sándor: Körösi Csoma Sándor csodálatos élete. (The Amazing Life of Sándor Körösi Csoma) Sft. Gĥeorge, 1938. — Françke, A. H.: Die Fragen des Alexander. Ungarische Jahrbücher VIII. Berlin, 1928. — Kara, György: Körösi Csoma Sándor. Budapest, 1970. Cf. Duka: Körösi Csoma Sándor dolgozatai (The Writings of Sándor Körösi Csoma) Budapest, 1885. — Laird, M. A.: "The contribution of the Serampole missionaries to education in Bengal. 1793-1837." BS OAS XXXI, London, 1960. — Ligeti, Lajos: „A jugarok földje" (The Land of the Yugars) Magyar Nyelv XXVII, 1931. — Ligeti, Lajos: Ouvrages tibétains rédigés á l'usage de Csoma. T'oung Pao. XXX, Leÿden, 1933. — Nagy, L. J.: "Tibetian books and manuscripts of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences." Analecta Orientalia (BOH V) Budapest, 1942. — Németh Gyula: Körösi Csoma Sándor célja. (The Aim of Sándor Körösi Csoma) Budapest, 1935. — Ross, E. Denison: Körösi Csoma Sándor. Körösi Csoma Archivum II, 1930. — Schmidt, József: Körösi Csoma Sándor. Körösi Csoma Archivum I, 1935. — Simon, Walter: "Tibetian lexicography and etymological research." Transactions of the Philological Society. London, 1964. — Szilágyi, Ferenc: Körösi Csoma Sándor hazai útja (Sándor Körösi Csoma's Journey in Hungary) Körösi Csoma Kiskönyvtár I. Budapest, 1966. Cf. Bethlenfalvy, Géza: in Acta Orient. Hung. XIX, 1966. pp. 376 - 377. —

Stein, Aurél .^Duka Tivadar emlékezete (In Memory of Tivadar Duka) Budapest, 1913. — Újfalvi Sándor emlékiratai (Sándor Újfalvi's Memoirs), edited by Farkas Gyalui. Kolozsvár, 1941. 5

0 Alexander Csoma de Kőrös to Captain C. P. Kennedy, Commanding Subathoo, January 28 1825. — Duka, note (44), pp. 24-32. 5

1 Duka, note (44), p. 1.