Heinrich Blochmann

Heinrich Blochmann

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🇩🇪Germany

Heinrich Blochmann, known as Henry Ferdinand Blochmann, was a German orientalist and scholar of Persian language and literature who spent most of his career in India, where he worked first as a professor, and eventually as the principal at Calcutta Madrasa, now Aliah University in present Kolkata. He is also remembered for one of the first major English translations of Ain-i-Akbari, the 16th-century Persian language chronicle of Mughal emperor Akbar, published in 1873.

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1838 – 1878
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  • 1838

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  • 1878

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