Bernard Dorn

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1805 - 1881

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Bernhard Dorn (1805, Scheierfeld – 1881, Saint Petersburg), full name Johannes Albrecht Bernhard Dorn, also called Boris Andreevich Dorn, studied theology and philology at Halle and Leipzig. Dorn was lecturer at the Leipzig University for some time. In 1829 he was appointed a professor of oriental languages at Kharkov University.

In 1835 he was transferred to Saint Petersburg as a professor of history and geography in the Asiatic Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dorn also taught Sanskrit and Pashtu at the University of Saint Petersburg. He entered the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1839. He published several works on history and many studies about the languages he had mastered, especially the Afghan languages.

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