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Chapter 5248 retorted that this was just because von Schlözer only had access to the Copen- hagen edition (to amend which Hell arranged for a copy of the Trnava edition to be sent to Göttingen); besides, the German professor was misled in his own notion of the original home of the Hungarians by his fallacious spelling of “Magyar” as “Madschar,” and by using the wrong sources and methodology (Fischer, geographer Johann Gustav Gärber [1690–1734], and renowned Swed- ish polymath Olof [Olaus] Rudbeck [1630–1702]). Soon after Hell sent this let- ter to Pray, he also received one from von Schlözer, thanking Hell for sending the Trnava edition of the Demonstratio, but reiterating some of the German Figure 12 Prince Árpád acknowledged as principal leader by raising him on the shield (“in a Khazaraian style”) by the Magyar chieftains and their allies From a map of ancient Hungary drawn by Hell on the basis of Anonymus’s Gesta Hungarorum (Tabula geographica Ungariae Veteris Ex Historia Anonymi Belæ Regis Notarii, a P. Maximiliano Hell S.I. Gabriel Ruderstorffer [Vienna, 1772]). Hungarian National Library, Map Department, TR 378.