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Reference code
GB 891 BHH-BHH/1-BHH/1/7
Title
Copy of a letter from Alexander Csoma de Koros to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 30 December 1829
Date(s)
- 30th Dec 1829 (Creation)
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Alexander Csoma de Koros was a Hungarian philologist who wrote the first Tibetan-English dictionary. He studied oriental languages in Gottingen and lived from 1819 to his death in 1842 in the Indian sub-continent studying the languages and the people.
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Scope and content
Copy of a letter from Alexander Csoma de Koros to Brian Houghton Hodgson, with critical comments on Hodgson's Hodgson's newly written work, "Notices of the Languages, Literature and Religion of the Bauddhas of Nepal and Bhot", in Asiatic Researches vol.… read more