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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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