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
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Gavin Flood FBA
Hindu religious literature in the Middle Ages (post-Gupta period); comparative religion, with particular reference to Hinduism and Christianity; philosophical phenomenology and hermeneutics
Mr Michael C A Macdonald FBA
Languages, scripts, inscriptions, and rock art in ancient Arabia and its environs; ancient literacy and its uses; the history of ancient Arabian cultures and of the ancient Near Eastern nomads
Professor Andrew Gerstle FBA
The cultural and social history of 17th-19th century Japan, with particular reference to Bunraku and Kabuki theatres, popular literature, sexuality and the visual arts
