ALEXANDER CSOMA DE KOROS (c. 1790-1842)  , or, as the name is written in Hungarian, KOROSI CSOMA SANDOR, Hungarian traveller and philologist, born about 1790 at Koros in Transylvania, belonged to a noble family which had sunk into poverty . He was educated at Nagy-Enyed and at Gottingen; and, in order to carry out the dream of his youth and discover the origin of his countrymen, he divided his. attention between medicine and the Oriental languages . In 1820, having received from a friend the promise of an annuity of roo florins (about 1o) to support him during his travels, he set out for the East . He visited Egypt, and made his way to Tibet, where he spent four years in a Buddhist monastery studying the. language and the Buddhist literature . To his intense disappointment he soon discovered that he could not thus obtain any assistance in his great object; but, having visited Bengal, his knowledge of Tibetan obtained him employment in the library of the Asiatic Society there, which possessed more than r000 volumes in that language; and he was afterwards supported by. the government while he published a Tibetan-English dictionary and grammar (both of which appeared at Calcutta in 1834) . Healso contributed several articles on the Tibetan language and literature to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and he published an analysis of the Kah-Gyur, the most important of the Buddhist sacred books . Meanwhile his fame had reached his native country, and procured him a pension from the government, which, with characteristic devotion to learning, he devoted to the. purchase of books for Indian libraries . He spent some time in Calcutta, studying . Sanskrit and several other languages; but, early in 1842, he commenced his second attempt to discover the origin of the Hungarians, but he died at Darjiling on the r 1th of April 1842 . An oration was delivered in his honour before the Hungarian Academy by Eotvos, the novelist .