Antal Reguly

Antal Reguly (Hungarian: Reguly Antal) (1819—1858) was a Hungarian linguist and ethnographer notable for his contribution to the study of Finno-Ugric languages. In 1843-4 he became the first ethnographer to visit the Mansi (Vogul) people to collect data on their language and folklore. Reguly's field work among the Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia ruined his health and he died young, leaving much of the material he had collected to be edited by his successors, who included Pál Hunfalvy. Reguly also visited Finland and translated parts of the Finnish national epic, "The Kalevala", into Hungarian.

ee also

Matthias Castrén (Reguly's Finnish contemporary who conducted similar field work among the Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia)

ources

*"The Uralic Languages" ed. Daniel Mario Abondolo (Taylor & Francis, 1998)
*Denis Sinor "The Uralic languages: description, history and foreign influences" (Brill, 1988)