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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Blochmann    
First Name(s)  Henry Ferdinand    
Year of Birth  1838    
Year of Death  1878    
Entry  Linguistic scholar : born at Dresden Jan. 8, 1838, the son of a printer : educated there, at Leipzig, and Paris : entered the English Army in 1858 to get out to India, left the Army, and joined the P. and O. Co.'s service as interpreter : in 1860 was made Assistant Professor of Urdu and Persian at the Calcutta Madrasa : graduated at the Calcutta University, 1861 : after 3 years at the Doveton College, removed to the Madrasa, 1865, and became its President until his death : he was philological Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and contributed many learned papers : translated Abul-Fazl's Ain-i-Akbari, the first volume, and wrote The Prosody of the Persians : he had a profound knowledge of Persian and Arabic: died July 13, 1878.     
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