Farid Alakbarli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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historian
Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1964
Place of Birth: Ganja, Azerbaijan
Profession: historian
Nationality: Azerbaijan
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Farid Alakbarli
- Farid Alakbarli (born 3 January 1964, in Ganja, Azerbaijan; in Azeri - F?rid ?l?kb?rli; in Russian ????? ?????????) is an Azerbaijani scholar, PhD and Professor in history, specialist in the field of history of science, culturology, and medieval medical manuscripts, the head of Department of Information and Translation of the Institute of Manuscripts of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, President of the Azerbaijan Association of Medical Historians (AAMH), National Delegate from Azerbaijan to International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM), author of more than 200 scientific and educational works including 23 books and booklets in Azeri Turkish, Russian, English, German and Italian. Alakbarli is a significant researcher of the history of medicine in Azerbaijan.
- In 2005, Alakbarli created the first society on the history of medicine in this country - Azerbaijan Association of Medical Historians (AAMH), and organized in Baku first scientific conferences in this field in 2005 and 2006.Alakbarli is the author of first books in English on the history of medicine and medical manuscripts in ancient and medieval Azerbaijan He also is the author of many books in Azeri and Russian, where many problems of the history of medicine and medieval medical manuscripts are researched In 2004-2005, he was responsible for the Memory of the World Programme of UNESCO in the Institute of Manuscripts in Baku.
- On 29 July 2005, UNESCO officially included three medieval medical manuscripts from the Institute of Manuscripts of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences into the register of the Memory of the World Programme, which includes the most unusual and irreplaceable written monuments of the humankind.In 2011-2013, he was the first Azerbaijani scholar who worked during long time in the Vatican Secret Archives and in Vatican Apostolic Library, where valuable medieval manuscripts related to Azerbaijan were discovered .
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