Frye, Richard
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- Summary
- Richard Nelson Frye was an American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University. His professional areas of interest were Iranian philology along with the history of ancient Iran and Central Asia. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4]
- Born
- 1920-01-10 [2][4]
- Birth Place
- Birmingham, Ala. [3]
- Birmingham [4]
- Died
- 2014-03-27 [2][4]
- Death Place
- Boston, Mass. [3]
- Boston [4]
- Country
- United States [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- linguist [4]
- iranologist [4]
- university teacher [4]
- Profession
- Iranist [2]
- Employer
- Harvard University [4]
- Office of Strategic Services [4]
- University of Hamburg [4]
- Goethe University Frankfurt [4]
- Educated at
- Harvard University [4]
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign [4]
- Country of Education
- United States [4]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [4]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Wikidata
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