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Textes Ossètes Recueillis Par Arthur Christensen, Avec Un Vocabulaire [Historik-filologiske Meddelelser. VI, 1]

Christensen, Arthur

Copenhagen: Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 1921. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. 143, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers with publisher's logo on front cover and title page. From the collection of Herbert H. Paper* on title page, and dated Cambridge, 1959. Danish orientalist and scholar of Iranian philology and folklore, Arthur Emanuel Christensen published this "Textes Ossètes" in 1921. The work was based on material that the author collected among former Ossetic prisoners of war in Germany who had escaped to Denmark during World Waṛ I. Front cover partly chipped and soiled. Wrappers age-toned. Text in French and Ossetian. Wraps in overall fair, interior in very good condition. g to g+. Item #37122

* Dr. Herbert Harry Paper (1925-2012) was Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and near Eastern Languages, and the Editor of the Hebrew Union College Annual, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati. He received a doctorate from the University of Chicago. Dr. Paper taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and joined HUC-JIR as the Dean of Graduate Studies. His specialties were Persian studies, concentrating on the history of the Persian language and on the ancient languages of Iran, and Yiddish literature.

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