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Edward Granville Browne was a British Iranologist and Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge.
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science · British Iranologist (1862–1926) · orientalist · physician · university teacher · translator · historian · academic · writer · also Brāwn, Edward Granville Browne
Born 7 February 1862 · Died 5 January 1926 · Q982047
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1926· 3 entries
Died 1926-01-05.
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It was reprinted and became a classic in English travel literature
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On 5 January 1926, Browne died at his home in Cambridge, 7 months after the death of his wife.
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1902· 1 entry
With subsequent volumes in 1906, 1920, and 1924
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1888· 1 entry
Whilst still travelling, Browne was appointed a university lecturer in Persian at University of Cambridge
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1887· 1 entry
Browne visited Qajar Iran (present-day Iran) from October 1887 to September 1888
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1882· 1 entry
Browne travelled to Constantinople where deepened his knowledge of Sufism and Ottoman and Persian classical poetry
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1877· 1 entry
Browne's sympathies towards the Ottomans led him to study Turkish
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1862· 1 entry
Born 1862-02-07.
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