Professor Dr Erik Hornung FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2000
Year of birth
1933
Year of death
2022

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Professor Emeritus of Egyptology, University of Basel

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Professor Peter Zieme FBA

The literary and religious heritage of Turkic peoples in Central Asia between the 8th and 14th centuries; edition of Old Uyghur texts of various contents; studies on literature and religion based on these materials

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Professor Jean-Pierre Mahé FBA

Languages & civilisations of the Christian Near East (Armenian, Caucasian, Albanian, Coptic, Georgian); epigraphy. palaeography; Armenian history;

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Professor Yutaka Yoshida FBA

The philological and historical studies of Sogdian and other Middle Iranian texts unearthed from the area along the ancient Silk Roads

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