At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · writer
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
"The Ritter Joseph von Hammer", as the title page calls him, with the letters of membership of the Royal Asiatic Society, translated Evliya Çelebi's travels from Turkish into English; the translation was published for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland in London, volume one in 1834 and volume two in 1850. 1 2
His work on the translation
The publisher's advertisement says Hammer "abridged and translated" the work, that his name is a sufficient voucher for its merit and the accuracy of the version, and that oriental words are spelt on the system of Sir William Jones and Sir Charles Wilkins. 3 Hammer prefaced volume one with a "Biographical sketch of the author" drawn from Evliya's own book: his birth, family, dream and journeys; in it he judged that four volumes of the work were extant and that Evliya never wrote a continuation. 4 5 He notes that his manuscript copy contains no account of Evliya's pilgrimage. 6 See the Seyahatname.
Connections
- Lived in
- London
- Wrote about
- Evliya Çelebi
People and things also explored
Bukola Saraki· Demis Hassabis· Faisal Islam· Farhat Amin· Fatima Barkatulla· George Sale· Haitham al-Haddad· Hamza Namira
Sources
- Evliya Efendi, Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century, transl. Joseph von Hammer, vol. 1 (London, 1834) , p.5
- Evliya Efendi, Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century, transl. Joseph von Hammer, vol. 2 (London, 1850) , p.5
- Evliya Efendi, Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century, transl. Joseph von Hammer, vol. 1 (London, 1834) , p.7
- Evliya Efendi, Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century, transl. Joseph von Hammer, vol. 1 (London, 1834) , p.9
- Evliya Efendi, Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century, transl. Joseph von Hammer, vol. 1 (London, 1834) , p.18
- Evliya Efendi, Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century, transl. Joseph von Hammer, vol. 1 (London, 1834) , p.16
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Joseph von Hammer(-Purgstall)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/joseph-von-hammer-purgstall/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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