ABSTRACT
Between 1670 and 1840, one encounters heterogeneous practices of knowledge acquisition in Hungary, relating to Native America. The chapter discusses how the authors of the age relied on textual, visual, oral, and institutional knowledge to get information. Institutional sites included the cabinets of curiosities, both smaller ones inside the country like that of the Jesuit University of Nagyszombat (Trnava/Tirnau), or the Reformed College of Sárospatak, and larger ones outside Hungary, including that of the Georg August University of Göttingen, Lower Saxony. The chapter surveys three practices of knowledge acquisition: Christian mission and conversion, translation from foreign languages, and collecting objects. In the Kingdom of Hungary, it was these three practices that affected Native American cultures the earliest.
