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-Sourced by Scroll.in Nearly two centuries after Alexander Csoma de Kőrös set off on his journey to Asia, his scholarly legacy is still alive and well. In 1816, a 32-year-old Hungarian scholar with a special gift for learning languages won a scholarship to study at the University of Göttingen, a prestigious research institution in Germany….
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