Károly Újfalvy von Mezőkövesd, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Károly Újfalvy von Mezőkövesd

Austro-Hungarian linguist

Date of Birth: 18-May-1842

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 31-Jan-1904

Profession: anthropologist, explorer, linguist

Nationality: Hungary, France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Károly Jeno Ujfalvy de Mezokövesd (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 the Kashmir in 1880.He was born at Székelykövesd/Cuiesd, in Transylvania, and died at Florence. Ujfalvy also published under the following names: Mezokövesdi Ujfalvy Károly Jeno, or Karl Eugen Ujfalvy von Mezokövesd, Charles-Eugène Ujfalvy de Mezökövesd, or Mezo-Kövesd.