Heinrich Blochmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German orientalist
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Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany
About Heinrich Blochmann
- Heinrich Blochmann, known as Henry Ferdinand Blochmann (8 January 1838 – 13 July 1878), 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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