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James Egan

bap. 1815 d. 1871 or later

Hungarian naturalist. Probably son of James Egan and Theresa Price, baptised as Eduardus Antonius Jacobus Egan at Bratislava (now in Slovakia). Also known as James Egasy. Professor of English at Budapest University, 1871.

Sources

G. F. Cushing, ‘Arthur Patterson’, Angol Filológiai Tanulmányok / Hungarian Studies in English 18 (1985): 6

Slovakia, church and synagogue books, 1592–1910 (Ancestry.com, accessed 27 July 2017)

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