Luciano Petech, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Luciano Petech

Italian historian

Date of Birth: 08-Jun-1914

Place of Birth: Trieste, Friuli–Venezia Giulia

Date of Death: 29-Sep-2010

Profession: historian

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Luciano Petech (8 June 1914, Trieste – 29 September 2010, Rome) was an Italian scholar of Himalayan history and the early relations between Tibet, Nepal and Italy.
He was Chair of History of Eastern Asia at the University of Rome from 1955 to 1984.
He is the most renowned of the students of the Italian explorer, academic and Asian scholar Giuseppe Tucci. Luciano Petech was born in 1914 and retired in 1984.
He learned almost all European languages, included Latin, as well as Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, Newari, Sanskrit, Arabic, Hindi and Urdu.