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Professor Dr Herbert Franke FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1994
Year of birth
1914
Year of death
2011
Honours
FBA
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East

Current post

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

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Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams FBA

Philology Central and Inner Asia

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Professor Geert Jan van Gelder FBA

Middle Eastern and African Languages and Literatures Middle East

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Professor Richard Widdess FBA

Musicology of South Asia, including history, theory, analysis and social context of music in North India and Nepal; music and religion in South Asia; analysis of world music; music cognition, performance and meaning in oral traditions

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