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Date transcribed	2011-05-01
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Leitner
	First Name(s)	Gottlieb Wilhelm
	Year of Birth	1840
	Year of Death	1899
	Entry	Born in Budapest, 1840 : son of a physician : to Turkey, 1847 : educated at Malta Protestant College : at 15 was appointed Chief Interpreter to H.M.'s Commissariat in the Crimean war, with rank of Colonel : attended the Muhammadan Theological School at Constantinople : entered at King's College, London, 1858 : appointed there, 1861, Professor of Arabic and Muhammadan Law : M.R.A.S., 1861 : M.A. and Ph.D., Freiburg, 1862 : Principal of the Government College, Lahore, 1864 : founded the Anjuman-i- Panjab : worked for the foundation of the Panjab University : organized many schools, free libraries, literary Societies and Journals in India : Registrar of the Lahore University College : explored among, studied, and wrote on, the wild tribes of the N.W. frontier, Dards, Hanzas, etc. : established the Journal Indian Public Opinion : collected information on the origins of Indian art, and specimens of Graeco-Buddhistic art : claimed to be the originator of the title Kaisar-i-Hind : retired, 1887 : acquired the Royal Dramatic College at Woking, and adapted it to an Oriental Institute there : published Languages and Races of Dardistan, The Language and People of Hanza, and many works on education, philology, trade, dialects, etc. : spoke, read, and wrote 25 languages : edited the Asiatic Quarterly Review, from Jan. 1890 : died at Bonn, March 22, 1899 : Ph.D. : LL.D. : D.O.L., 1882

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