Rustem Vambery
Rusztem Vámbéry was a judge, politician and criminologist of international standing.
He was the son of the famed orientalist Ármin Vámbéry. Edward Prince of Wales was his godfather. He studied law in Halle and Budapest. In Hungary, he had opposed the policy of Béla Kun's Soviet Republic and Miklós Horthy's Regency. He lived in the U.S. from 1938, teaching at the New School for Social Research in New York. He was the Hungarian ambassador to the U.S. from September 5, 1947, to May 2, 1948.
