Flashcards: British orientalists

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Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, spy and archaeologist who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her knowledge and contacts, built up through extensive travels in Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia.

Edmund Castell (1606–1686) was an English orientalist.

The Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce (25 September 1845 – 4 February 1933), was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919.

James Legge (/lɛɡ/; 20 December 1815 – 29 November 1897) was a Scottish sinologist, missionary, and scholar, best known as an early and prolific translator of Classical Chinese texts into English.

William George Aston (9 April 1841 – 22 November 1911) was a British diplomat, author and scholar-expert in the language and history of Japan and Korea.

William Cureton (1808 – 17 June 1864) was an English Orientalist.

Oliver Robert Gurney (28 January 1911 – 11 January 2001) was an English Assyriologist from the Gurney family and a leading scholar of the Hittites.

John Crawfurd FRS (13 August 1783 – 11 May 1868) was a Scottish physician, colonial administrator and diplomat, and author.

Edward Backhouse Eastwick CB (1814 – 16 July 1883, Ventnor, Isle of Wight) was a British orientalist, diplomat and Conservative Member of Parliament.

Sir George Thomas Staunton, 2nd Baronet (26 May 1781 – 10 August 1859) was an English traveller and Orientalist.

Robert Needham Cust (21 February 1821 – 27 October 1909) was a British colonial administrator and linguist.

Edward Byles Cowell FBA (23 January 1826 – 9 February 1903) was a noted translator of Persian poetry and the first professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University.

John Leyden (8 September 1775 – 28 August 1811) was a Scottish orientalist.

Lawrence I. Conrad (born 1949), is a historian of Near Eastern Medicine, at the UCL Centre for the History of Medicine in London, UK and a Lecturer at University College, London.

William Crooke CIE FBA (6 August 1848 – 25 October 1923) was a British orientalist and a key figure in the study and documentation of Anglo-Indian folklore.

Arthur John Arberry (12 May 1905 in Portsmouth – 2 October 1969 in Cambridge) FBA was a respected British orientalist.

Edward Ullendorff FBA (25 January 1920 – 6 March 2011) was a British scholar and historian.

Alphonse Mingana (born as Hurmiz Mingana; Syriac: ܗܪܡܙ ܡܢܓܢܐ‎, in 1878 at Sharanesh, a village near Zakho (present day Iraq) - died 5 December 1937 Birmingham, England) was an ethnic Assyrian theologian, historian, Syriacist, orientalist and a former priest who is best known for collecting and preserving the Mingana Collection of ancient Middle Eastern manuscripts at Birmingham.

Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert (1880 – 26 September 1923) was a British diplomat, traveller, and intelligence officer associated with Albanian independence.

John Garrard Burton-Page (19 September 1921 – 2005) was a British orientalist, Lecturer in the Art and Architecture of India at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

John William Alan Okell OBE (pronounced [əʊˈkɛl]; born 1934) is a British linguist notable for his expertise in the field of Burma studies.

Sir Edward Denison Ross (6 June 1871 – 20 September 1940) was an Orientalist and linguist, specializing in languages of the Far East.

Annette Susannah Beveridge (née Akroyd) (1842–1929) was a British Orientalist known for her translation of the Humayun-nama and the Babur-nama.

Sir Ernest Mason Satow GCMG PC (30 June 1843 – 26 August 1929), was a British scholar, diplomat and Japanologist.

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George Phillips (11 January 1804 – 5 February 1892), was an English churchman and academic, known as an orientalist and mathematician.

Sir Graves Chamney Haughton FRS (1788 – 28 August 1849) was a British scholar of Oriental languages.

Keith Leslie Pratt (born January 27, 1938) is a British academic, author, historian, Koreanist, Sinologist and professor emeritus in the Department of East Asian Studies at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

Hugh Edward Richardson CIE OBE FBA (22 December 1905 - 3 December 2000) was an Indian Civil Service officer, British diplomat and Tibetologist.

Mabel Haynes Bode (1864–1922) was one of the first women to enter the academic fields of Pali, Sanskrit and Buddhist studies.

Julia Margaret Bray is a British scholar of Oriental studies who specialises in Medieval to Early Modern Arabic literature.

Douglas Morton Dunlop (1909–1987) was a renowned British orientalist and scholar of Islamic and Eurasian history.

Solomon Caesar Malan (April 22, 1812 – November 25, 1894) was a British divine and orientalist.

Joan Margaret Munn-Rankin (29 July 1913 – 28 July 1981), known as Margaret Munn-Rankin and published as J.

Frederick Eden Pargiter (1852 - 18 February 1927) was a British civil servant and Orientalist .

Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare (14 September 1856 – 9 January 1924) was a British orientalist, Fellow of University College, Oxford, and Professor of Theology at the University of Oxford.

Frederick Victor Dickins (1838–1915) was a British surgeon, barrister, orientalist and university administrator.

Robin ("Ron") Leonard Bidwell (1929–1994) was a British orientalist and author.

William Francklin (1763–1839), was an English orientalist and army officer.

Victor William Williams Saunders Purcell CMG (26 January 1896 – 2 January 1965) was a British colonial public servant, historian, poet, and Sinologist in Malaya (now Malaysia).

William E. Skillend (Korean: 윌리암 스킬렌드) (April 26, 1926 – February 21, 2010) was the first British academic specializing in the Korean language, and the first professor of Korean at SOAS.

William St. Clair Tisdall (1859–1928) was a British historian and philologist who served as the Secretary of the Church of England's Missionary Society in Isfahan, Persia.

Zahra Dickson Freeth is a British author, the daughter of H.

Arthur Lumley Davids (born Asher Lumle Davids; 28 August 1811 - 19 July 1832) was an English orientalist and linguist.

Mansel Longworth Dames (1850–1922) was a scholar of oriental and Portuguese languages.

Gustav Haloun (January 12, 1898, Brtnice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary — December 24, 1951, Cambridge, England) was a Czech sinologist.

Carlile Henry Hayes Macartney (1842–1924) was a British painter and orientalist.

Richard Rudolf Walzer, FBA (14 July 1900, Berlin – 16 April 1975, Oxford) was a German-born British expert on Greek philosophy.

Sir Eric Teichman, born Erik Teichmann (16 January 1884 – 3 December 1944, in Norfolk, England) was a British diplomat and orientalist.

Sir Paul Rycaut FRS (23 December 1629, in London – 16 November 1700, in Hamburg) was a British diplomat and historian, and authority on the Ottoman Empire.

(For the Australian politician, see Alan Millard (politician).) Alan Ralph Millard (born 1 December 1937) is Rankin Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic languages, and Honorary Senior Fellow (Ancient Near East), at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (SACE) in the University of Liverpool.

Charles Stewart (1764–1837), was a British orientalist.

David Price (1762 – 16 December 1835) was a Welsh orientalist and officer in the East India Company.

David Wilkins (1685–1745), originally named Wilke or Wilkius, was a Prussian orientalist, born in Memel, who settled in England.

Sir Harry Mason Garner KBE CB FRAeS (1891 – 1977) was a British aerodynamicist who was also notable as an expert on, and collector of, oriental ceramics.

Harry Leonard Shorto (1919–1995) was a British philologist and linguist who specialized on the Mon language and Mon-Khmer studies.

James Edward Hoare (born 1943) is a British academic and historian specialising in Korean and Chinese studies, and a career diplomat in the British Foreign Office.

James Long (1814–1887) was an Anglo-Irish priest of the Anglican Church.