Nikolai Petrovsky

Nikolai Petrovsky

male
Russian, CentralAsianStudies, Consul-General, Imperial Russia, English, Central Asia
Nikolai Petrovsky was the Russian consul-general in Kashgar from 1882 until 1902. Petrovsky's main adversary during his time in Central Asia was...
Hasan Bülent Paksoy

Hasan Bülent Paksoy

male, 61 years old
turkish, Ödemiş, From Izmir, Doctor of Philosophy, historian, doctoral degree…Central Connecticut State University, CentralAsianStudies
Hasan Bulent Paksoy is a Turkish historian (b. 1948 in Ödemiş) who earned his doctoral degree at the St. Antony's College of the Oxford Un...
Wang Yuanlu

Wang Yuanlu

male
Chinese Taoist, Dunhuang, CentralAsianStudies, Sir Aurel Stein, Taoist
Wang Yuanlu (c.a. 1849 - 1931) was a Taoist priest acting as an abbot of the caves in Dunhuang at the beginning of the 20th century. He discovered...
Pyotr Kozlov

Pyotr Kozlov

male, deceased (1935)
Noin-Ula, explorer, Russian, smolensk, novgorod, Orientalist…CentralAsianStudies
Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov (born October 3, 1863 near Smolensk; died September 26, 1935 in Peterhof) was a Russian explorer who continued the studies of...

Augustus Hoernle

male, deceased (1918)
Anglican, linguist, British, Orientalist, benares, calcutta…CentralAsianStudies
Dr. Augustus Rudolf Hoernle (1841-1918) was an English Orientalist. He was born in India, the son of an Anglican priest. He attended school in...
Alexander Burnes

Alexander Burnes

male, deceased (1841)
lahore, The Great Game, maharaja, East India Company, persian, montrose…CentralAsianStudies
Sir Alexander Burnes (1805 - November 2, 1841) was a British traveller and explorer who took part in The Great Game. He was born in Montrose,...

Ármin Vámbéry

male, deceased (1913)
hungarian, Orientalist, Jewish person, Central Asia, explorer, CentralAsianStudies
Ármin Vámbéry, Arminius Vámbéry born Hermann Bamberger, or Bamberger Ármin (19 March 1832, Dunaszerdahely - 15 September 1913, Budapest) was a Hung...
William Woodthorpe Tarn

William Woodthorpe Tarn

male, deceased (1957)
Indian, classical antiquity, Western world, western, The Greek in Bactria and India, Fellow of the British Academy…CentralAsianStudies
Sir William Woodthorpe Tarn was a British classical scholar and a writer. He wrote extensively on the Hellenistic world, particularly on Alexander...

Arthur Conolly

male, deceased (1842)
British East India Company Army officer, Army Officer, intelligence, British East India Company, connolly, CentralAsianStudies
Arthur Conolly (1807 - June 1842) (sometimes misspelled Connolly) was a British intelligence officer, explorer and writer. He was a captain of the...

Ōtani Kōzui

male, deceased (1948)
Japanese Buddhist monk, Kazoku, CentralAsianStudies, Central Asia, manchuria, Japanese
Count Otani Kozui was the 22nd Abbot of the West Honganji Monastery of the Jodo Shinshu Buddhist sect in Kyoto, Japan. He is known for expeditions...