Alexander Csoma de Kőrös (c. 1784-1842) a Hungarian scholar was the first to interpret the cultural heritage of the Tibetan people to Europe . He compiled the first Tibetan-English Dictionary of scientific value together with a Grammar of the Tibetan Language (1834). With his scholarly work he became the founder of Tibetan studies, a new discipline of Oriental studies.
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