File BHH/1/8 - Letter from Alexander Csoma de Koros to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 29 April, 1830

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GB 891 BHH-BHH/1-BHH/1/8

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Letter from Alexander Csoma de Koros to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 29 April, 1830

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  • 29th Apr 1830 (Creation)

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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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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, 4 sides, dated 29 April, 1830.

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