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2 unusual facts about Andreas Tietze


Andreas Tietze

Comparing the oldest collection of Turkish riddles, those found in a section of the 14th-century Codex Cumanicus, with related riddles from other Turkic sources, he described a new vision of this early work in "The Koman Riddles and Turkic Folklore".

Andreas Tietze (26 April 1914 - 22 December 2003) was a world-renowned Austrian Turcologist and one of the founders of Turkic studies in the United States.



see also

Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz

Joseph Yahalom, "Hebrew mystical poetry and its Turkish background," in Andreas Tietze and Joseph Yahalom, Ottoman Melodies Hebrew Hymns: a 16th century cross-cultural adventure (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1995), pp.