West Edward William 1824-1905 Orientalist, translator of Zoroastrian texts

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West Edward William 1824-1905 Orientalist, translator of Zoroastrian texts

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Edward William West was born in 1824 and was educated at Kings College, London. He was a scholar of Zoroastrianism and translator of Pahlavi texts. He worked in India from 1844 for twenty years, as a civil engineer. In this time he became interested inread more