Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Kőrös
Alexander Csoma de
1784-1842
Philologist, Orientalist
Description area
History
Alexander Csoma de Koros was a Hungarian philologist who wrote the first Tibetan-English dictionary. He studied oriental languages in Gottingen and lived from 1819 to his death in 1842 in the Indian sub-continent studying the languages and the people.