| LC control no. | n 81149241 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Francke, August Hermann, 1870-1930 |
| Variant(s) | Francke, A. H. (August Hermann), 1870-1930 Francke, Hermann, 1870-1930 Francke, H. (Hermann), 1870-1930 |
| Associated country | Germany |
| Located | Berlin (Germany) Leh (India) |
| Birth date | 1870-11-05 |
| Death date | 1930-02-16 |
| Place of birth | India |
| Field of activity | Missions Tibetan philology |
| Affiliation | Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin |
| Profession or occupation | Missionaries Tibetologists |
| Found in | First collection of Tibetan historical inscriptions on rock and stone, 2003: t.p. (A.H. Francke) jkt. (A.H. Francke, collected 89 inscriptions from western Tibet in 1905) Eine Besteigung des Karsongpasses (Kaschmir), 1900: p. [222] (Hermann Francke, Leh) Wikipedia, viewed 27 Nov. 2017 (August Hermann Francke (5 November 1870 in Gnadenfrei, Silesia - 16 February 1930 in Berlin) was a German Tibetologist. He was a Moravian Church missionary in the Himalayas serving in that capacity in Ladakh, a major region of Jammu and Kashmir Province from 1896 until 1909. He was subsequently appointed professor of Tibetan languages at Berlin University.) |
| Associated language | ger |
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