Antal Reguly

Antal Reguly ( born July 11, 1819 in Zirc, Veszprém, † August 23 1858 in Buda ) was a Hungarian ethnographer.

Reguly studied at the Royal Hungarian University the rights and history. From 1839, he toured in a historical and ethnographical interest Northern Europe, and lived from 1842 to 1846 under the Uralian Finns. In 1849 he became the first curator of the University Library to plague and died there on 23 August 1858.

During his lifetime, he published letters in the Hungarian magazine Athenaeum; an Ethnographic geographical map of the northern Ural (St. Petersburg 1846); Treatises on the Dsungars and their alleged racial kinship with the Magyars ( in the reports of the Hungarian Academy, 1850 and 1851), among others

His literary estate has been edited by Pál Hunfalvy and edited. In the birthplace of Reguly in Zirc is named after him Ethnographic Museum ( Muzeum Néprajzi ), in the local abbey building is the Reguly Antal - Memorial Library ( Reguly Antal Műemlék Könyvtár ).