40 years of correspondence between two leading orientalists in Russia, often concerning Georgian mat 1840 - 1879

Bernard Dorn

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• Sobre arte
  [21 autograph letters, signed, to Marie-Félicité Brosset].
  Saint Petersburg, ca. 1840-1879. 8vo (letters, mostly 21 x 13.5 cm) and folio (list of publications). Letters in French with an occasional (Persian?) word in Arabic script, written in black ink on paper, some with the address on the outside and one with Dorn's (Persian?) red wax seal in Arabic script.
  
  With: (2) [Manuscript chronological numbered list of 34 publications by Dorn, 1843-1865].
  [Saint Petersburg, ca. 1865].
  
  Signed autograph letters written over nearly 40 years by the German-born orientalist in Saint Petersburg, Bernard Dorn (1805-1881) to (or in one case for) his Paris-born colleague Marie-Félicité Brosset (1802-1880), mostly while Brosset was at the Hermitage Museum and Dorn at the Asiatic Museum, both in Saint Petersburg. The letters revolve around their mutual professional interest in oriental languages, particularly in Georgia (Tiflis is explicitly mentioned), and in numismatics. Dorn and Brosset were nearly the same age, came to Saint Petersburg at nearly the same time, and the present letters show that they also developed a close personal friendship, sometimes referring to their families.
  Some letters with embossed stamps. Some of the letters were sealed and therefore have small tears where Brosset broke the seals, but all are in good or very good condition. In 3 letters the ink has bled through a bit.
• Sobre artista
  Bernhard Dorn (1805, Scheierfeld - 1881, São Petersburgo), nome completo Johannes Albrecht Bernhard Dorn, também chamado de Boris Andreevich Dorn, estudou teologia e filologia em Halle e Leipzig. Dorn foi professor na Universidade de Leipzig por algum tempo. Em 1829, foi nomeado professor de línguas orientais na Universidade de Kharkov. Em 1835, ele foi transferido para São Petersburgo como professor de história e geografia no Departamento Asiático do Ministério das Relações Exteriores da Rússia. Dorn também ensinou sânscrito e pashtu na Universidade de São Petersburgo. Ele entrou na Academia Russa de Ciências em 1839. Publicou vários trabalhos sobre história e muitos estudos sobre as línguas que dominava, especialmente as línguas afegãs.