Antal (Anton) Reguly (, 1819–1858) was a Hungarian

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and

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notable for his contribution to the study of

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. In 1843-4 he became the first ethnographer to visit the Mansi (Vogul) people to collect data on their language and folklore. Reguly's

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among the Uralic peoples of

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ruined his health, and he died young, leaving much of the material he had collected to be edited by his successors, including Pál Hunfalvy. Reguly also visited

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and translated parts of '' The Kalevala'' into Hungarian. The Reguly Antal Memorial Library and Reguly Antal Ethnographic Museum and Folk Art Workshop is in the town of

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, in

Veszprém county Veszprém (, ; ) is an administrative county (''vármegye'') in Hungary. Veszprém is also the name of the capital city of Veszprém county. Veszprém county Veszprém county lies in western Hungary. It covers the Bakony hills and the norther ...

, Hungary. Mount Reguly in the Research Range is also named for him.

Sources

* ''The Uralic Languages'' ed. Daniel Mario Abondolo (Taylor & Francis, 1998) *

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Reguly, Antal 1819 births 1858 deaths Burials at Kerepesi Cemetery Scholars from the Austrian Empire 19th-century linguists Scholars from Austria-Hungary Hungarian Finno-Ugrists People from Veszprém County

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