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Reference code
GB 891 BHH-BHH/1-BHH/1/8
Title
Letter from Alexander Csoma de Koros to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 29 April, 1830
Date(s)
- 29th Apr 1830 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 item Handwritten
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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
Letter from Alexander Csoma de Koros to Brian Houghton Hodgson acknowledging the receipt of a pamphlet sent by Hodgson. He writes to try to clarify some points on Buddhism and the Tibetan alphabet and language which the two men are disputing. Handwritten,… read more
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Language of material
- English