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Professor Oswald Szemerenyi FBA

Linguistics - Philology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1982
Year of birth
1913
Year of death
1996
Honours
FBA
Sections
Linguistics and Philology

Current post

Professor Emeritus of Indo-European and General Linguistics, University of Freiburg i.B

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Professor Almut Hintze FBA

The languages, religions and history of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia with special attention to Zoroastrianism; Ancient and Middle Iranian philology and linguistics

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Middle Eastern and African Languages and Literatures

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Professor Graham Furniss FBA

Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger

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