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See also:LEITNER, GOTTLIEB WILHELM (184o-1899) , Anglo-Hungarian orientalist, was See also:born at See also:Budapest in 1840. He was the son of a physician, and was educated at See also:Malta See also:Protestant See also:college. At the See also:age of fifteen he acted as an interpreter in the See also:Crimean See also:War. He entered See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's College, See also:London, in 1858, and in 1861 was appointed See also:professor of Arabic and See also:Mahommedan See also:law. He became See also:principal of the See also:government college at See also:Lahore in 1864, and there originated the See also:term " See also:Dardistan " for a portion of the mountains on the See also:north-See also:west frontier, which was subsequently recognized to be a purely artificial distinction. He collected much valuable See also:information on Graeco-Buddhist See also:art and the origins of See also:Indian art. He spoke, read and wrote twenty-five See also:languages. He founded an See also:oriental See also:institute at See also:Woking, and for some years edited the See also:Asiatic Quarterly See also:Review. He died at See also:Bonn in 1899.
See J. H. Stocqueler, See also:Life and Labours of Dr Leitner (1875).
End of Article: LEITNER, GOTTLIEB WILHELM (184o-1899)
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