E. G. Browne

Edward Granville Brown (1862-1926) b. Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was an Orientalist scholar.

Related Topics:
Gloucestershire - Orientalist

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He is perhaps best known for his documentation and historical narratives of the Bábí movement as relayed by Count Gobineau. He published two translations of Bábí histories, and wrote several of the few Western accounts of early Bábí and Bahá'í history.

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Bábí - Count Gobineau - Bahá'í

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In addition, he wrote A Year Among the Persians (1893) sympathetic portrayal of Persian society which few Westerners have ever seen, including a frank account of the effects of opium. It did not attract the attention it deserved at the time of its initial publication, but after his death in 1926 it was reprinted and became a classic in English travel literature.

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Published the first volume of A Literary History of Persia in 1902 with subsequent volumes in 1906, 1920, and 1924. At the close of the twentieth century it remains the standard authority on the subject.

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At the University of Cambridge Browne was mainly responsible for the creation of a school of living oriental languages, in connection with the training of candidates for the Egyptian and Sudenese civil services, and the Lebanese consular service.

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University of Cambridge - Oriental languages

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The name of a street named after him in Tehran, as well as his statue, remained even after the Iranian revolution of 1979.

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