Professor Dr Herbert Franke FBA

Elected 1994

Fellow type: Corresponding Fellow
Year of birth: 1914
Year of death: 2011
Year elected: 1994
Honours: FBA

Current post

Member, Committee for Central Asian Studies, Bavarian Academy of Sciences

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