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See also:FRAHN, See also:CHRISTIAN See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
MARTIN (1782-1851) , See also:German numismatist and historian, was See also:born at See also:Rostock. He began his See also:Oriental studies under Tychsen at the university of Rostock, and afterwards prosecuted them at See also:Gottingen and See also:Tubingen. He became a Latin See also:master in See also:Pestalozzi's famous See also:institute in 1804, returned See also:home in 18o6, and in the following See also:year was chosen to fill the See also:chair of Oriental See also:languages in the See also:Russian university of Kazan. Though in 1815 he was invited to succeed Tychsen at
Rostock, he preferred to go to St See also:Petersburg, where he became director of the See also:Asiatic museum and councillor of See also:state. He died at St Petersburg.
Frahn wrote over 15o See also:works. Among the more important are: Numophylacium orientale Pototianum (1813) ; De numorum Bulgharicorum fonte antiquissimo (1816) ; See also:Des muhammedanische Miinzkabinet des asiatischen Museum der kaiserl. Akademie der Wissenschaf ten zu St Petersburg (1821); Numi cufici ex variis museis selecti (1823); See also:Notice d'une centaine d'ouvrages arabes, See also:lac., qui manquent en grande pantie aux bibliotheques de l'See also:Europe (1834); and Nova supplementa ad recensionem Num. Muham. Acad. See also:Imp. Sci. Petropolitanae (1855). His description of some medals struck by the Samanid and Bouid princes (1804) was composed in Arabic because he had no Latin types.
End of Article: FRAHN, CHRISTIAN MARTIN (1782-1851)
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