Charles Eugène de Ujfalvy de Mező-Kövesd

Kárl Jenő Mezőkövesdi Ujfalvy was born in Austria-Hungary, more specifically in Transylvania, and he was a true central European. He had studied in Bonn in Germany and moved to Paris France where he worked as a linguistic. He was also an explorer. He published his works mainly in French (using the names Charles Eugène de Ujfalvy and Charles Eugène de Ujfalvy-Bourdon) but he also published works in German (using the name Karl Eugen Ujfalvy). His expeditions took him, for example, to Central Asia, Turkestan and Himalaya.

Charles Eugène de Ujfalvy de Mező-Kövesd made the Hungarian language and culture known in France in many ways. The translation of a passage of the Kalevala (the first poem) presented the Finno-Ugric languages and he published this translation in 1876.