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Anthony Ashley Bevan

Anthony Ashley Bevan (1859-1933), English Orientalist.


1585 in poetry

Daniel Schwenter (died 1636), German Orientalist, mathematician, inventor, poet, and librarian

Adolf Fonahn

Adolf Mauritz Fonahn (born June 15, 1873 in Hedrum, died 15 August 1940 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian physician, medical historian and orientalist.

Al-Mu'tadid

According to the Orientalist Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen, al-Mu'tadid "had inherited his father's gifts as a ruler and was distinguished alike for his economy and his military ability", becoming "one of the greatest of the Abbasids in spite of his strictness and cruelty".

Alexander Dow

Alexander Dow (1735/6, Perthshire, Scotland – 31 July 1779, Bhagalpur) was an Orientalist, writer, playwright and army officer in the East India Company.

Alexander Kazembek

Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek (1802–1870), 19th century Russian historian, linguist, and orientalist

Alexander Tumansky

Tumanskiy, Aleksandr Grigor’evich (Russian: Туманский, Александр Григорьевич) (1861–1920) – Russian orientalist, military interpreter, Major General of Imperial Russian Army, belonging to an ancient aristocratic family, which had originated from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Andreas Gottlieb Hoffmann

Andreas Gottlieb Hoffmann (April 13, 1796 – March 16, 1864) was a German Protestant theologian and Orientalist born in Welbsleben.

Augustin Berque

Augustin Berque, born in 1942, Rabat, Morocco, is a French geographer, Orientalist and philosopher.

Balti language

The missionary, orientalist and linguist Heinrich August Jäschke (1817–1883) classified Balti as one of the westernmost Tibetan dialects.

Barthélemy d'Herbelot

The latter edition is enriched with the contributions of the Dutch orientalist Schultens, Johann Jakob Reiske (1716–1774), and by a supplement provided by Visdelou and Antoine Galland.

Başkale

In 1829, the German orientalist Friedrich Eduard Schulz was murdered near Başkale, along with four servants.

Benjamin Herder

When its appearance was made possible and its issue was begun in 1847 under the direction of Benedict Welte, exegete of Tübingen, and Heinrich Joseph Wetzer, Orientalist of Freiburg.

Buddhism and Gnosticism

The German orientalist Max Müller corresponded with the Hemis monastery that Notovitch claimed to have visited and Archibald Douglas visited Hemis Monastery.

Clan Mackenzie

During the Wars in India, Colin Mackenzie (1754–1821) was Surveyor General of India, and an art collector and orientalist.

Claude Farrer

He was the second son and third child of four of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer (who was raised to the peerage but only in 1893 after Claude's death, so Claude was not styled "the Honourable") and his wife Frances Erskine (1825–1870), daughter of the historian and orientalist William Erskine (1773–1852) and his wife Maitland Mackintosh daughter of James Mackintosh by his first wife.

Conybeare

Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare (1856 – 1924) orientalist and grandson of William Daniel

Eduard Mahler

Eduard Mahler, or Mahler Ede (September 28, 1857, Cífer, Austro-Hungarian Empire – June 29, 1945, Újpest) was a Hungarian-Austrian astronomer, Orientalist, natural scientist.

Edward Granville Browne

He also studied Arabic with Edward Henry Palmer and William Wright, and Persian with Edward Byles Cowell, motivated by an interest in the Turkish people.

Ehrenfels

Baron Omar Rolf von Ehrenfels (1901-1980), an Austrian anthropologist and orientalist

Ernst Waldschmidt

Ernst Waldschmidt (July 15, 1897, Lünen, Province of Westphalia - February 25, 1985, Göttingen) was a German orientalist and Indologist.

Gesenius

Wilhelm Gesenius (1786–1842), German orientalist, Biblical critic, theologian and Hebraist

Giovanni Antonio Guardi

Among his first important clients was the connoisseur and collector Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, for whom Guardi multiple paintings with an Orientalist theme.

Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation

A 17th-century account by Quaresmi, the Italian writer and Orientalist, indicates that the church was not visible above ground, but that the top of the vault of a subterranean chamber that had remained intact was at ground level.

Guy Lefèvre de la Boderie

Guy Lefèvre de la Boderie (b. near Falaise, Calvados in Normandy, 9 August 1541; d. in 1598 in the house in which he was born) was a French Orientalist, Bible scholar and poet.

Heinrich Menu von Minutoli

The scientists Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, the architecture professor Liman and the Orientalist Scholz, among others, accompanied him.

Henotheism

Max Müller (1823–1900), a German philologist and orientalist, brought the term into common usage.

Jean Mohamed Ben Abdejlil

Born into a family of Muslim notables of Fez, Mohamed Ben Abdejlil, who had made the Hajj to Mecca with his father, converted to Catholicism and was baptized in April 7, 1928 in the chapel of Franciscan college of Fontenay-sous-bois, taking the Christian name Jean, with sponsor of French orientalist Louis Massignon.

Joaquín Sorolla

In 1890, they moved to Madrid, and for the next decade Sorolla's efforts as an artist were focussed mainly on the production of large canvases of orientalist, mythological, historical, and social subjects, for display in salons and international exhibitions in Madrid, Paris, Venice, Munich, Berlin, and Chicago.

José Correia da Serra

Those signing his Certificate of Election and Candidature were: James Edward Smith, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Edward Whitaker Gray, Maxwell Garthshore, Samuel Solly, James Rennell and William Marsden.

Joseph Franz

Joseph Franz von Allioli (1793–1873), German Roman Catholic Theologian and Orientalist

Joseph Tiefenthaler

Tiefenthaler sent these works in manuscript partly to the Danish scholar Dr. Kratzenstein in Copenhagen, partly to the French orientalist and geographer A. H. Anquetil-Duperron (1731–1805).

Karel Werner

Karel Werner,(*12.1.1925) an indologist, orientalist, religionist and philosopher of religion, was born in Jemnice in what was then Czechoslovakia(now Czech Republic).

Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies

Being an academician orientalist, a new director made the KazISS analysis receive more academic character, more attention was paid to the issues of Islam.

Khutu

The era of modern scholarship on the identity of khutu began with the work of the orientalist Berthold Laufer.

Minorsky

Vladimir Minorsky (1877 – 1966), a Russian Orientalist who studied Kurdish and Persian history, geography, literature, and culture.

Mount Judi

The proposal that the two names are ultimately the same was first advanced by the English Orientalist George Sale in his translation of the Qur'an published in 1734.

Nicolò Maria Antonelli

Nicolò Maria Antonelli (8 July 1698 – 24 September 1767) was an Italian Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, a learned canonist, ecclesiastical historian, and Orientalist.

Peter van Bohlen

Peter von Bohlen (9 March 1796, in Wüppels, in the Wangerland Gemeinde – 6 February 1840, in Halle) was a German Orientalist and Indologist.

Pococke

Edward Pococke (1604–1691), an English Orientalist and biblical scholar.

Polykarp Leyser

Polykarp Leyser III (1656 – 1725), German Lutheran theologian, superintendent, chaplain and orientalist

Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch

It was there he met and befriended French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt, pioneer of modern dance Loïe Fuller, French poet, novelist and noted orientalist Judith Gautier, Suzanne Meyer-Zundel, Austrian composer Hugo Wolf, painter and illustrator Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and founder of the Ballets Russes Sergei Diaghilev.

Rudolf Ernst

Rudolf Ernst (14 February 1854, Vienna - 1932, Fontenay-aux-Roses) was an Austro-French painter, printmaker and ceramics painter who is best known for his orientalist motifs.

Shāh Khalīlullāh III

Scottish traveller and author James Baillie Fraser described the Imam as “a person of high respectability and great influence”, while French linguist and orientalist Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy quoted a description of the Imam as “This person, whom his people grace with the pompous title of caliph, enjoys a great reputation and is considered to have the gift of performing miracles”.

Sophia Lane Poole

She was the estranged wife of Edward Poole and sister of the famous orientalist Edward William Lane, who suggested that she and her sons join him in Egypt so that she could report on the female side of Egypt's gender-segregated society.

Stefan Heidemann

Stefan Heidemann (born 1961 in Versmold in Westphalia) is a German orientalist at Hamburg University, Hamburg.

Sudeki

David Leonard's review for PopMatters expresses considerable concern about the Orientalist packaging of the Asian setting of the game as well as the currents of "female hypersexuality", "racism, sexism and simulations of the war on terror".

The Bioscope Man

In 1920, German director Fritz Lang comes calling to make his 'India film' on the great 18th century English Orientalist Sir William Jones.

University of Giessen

Next to Liebig, famous professors at the university included the theologian Adolf von Harnack, the lawyer Rudolf von Jhering, the economist and statistician Etienne Laspeyres, the physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, the mathematicians Moritz Pasch and Alfred Clebsch, the gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka, the philologist and archaeologist Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, and the orientalist Eberhard Schrader.


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