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          Browne began learning Persian in and subsequently became a Persophile and admirer of Persian language and culture.

          Edward Granville Browne FBA (7 February – 5 January ) was a British Iranologist..

          Edward Granville Browne

          British Iranologist (1862–1926)

          Edward Granville BrowneFBA (7 February 1862 – 5 January 1926) was a British Iranologist.

          He published numerous articles and books, mainly in the areas of history and literature.

          Life

          Browne was born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, the son of civil engineer Sir Benjamin Chapman Browne and his wife, Annie.

          Biography.

        1. Biography.
        2. For further biographical information on this period of Browne's life, see the chapter "The Persian" which A. J. Arberry devoted to him in his Oriental.
        3. Edward Granville Browne FBA (7 February – 5 January ) was a British Iranologist.
        4. According to the few available cursory biographical accounts of Edward Granville.
        5. PDF | On Jan 1, , Christopher Buck published Christopher Buck, “Edward Granville Browne.” British Writers, Supplement XXI.

          6. He was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond, Burnside's School in Berkshire, Eton College, and the Newcastle College of Physical Science. He then read natural sciences at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He also studied Arabic with Edward Henry Palmer and William Wright, Persian with Edward Byles Cowell, and Turkish with Sir James Redhouse, motivated by an interest in the Turkish people.[1] After graduating in 1882 he travelled to Constantinople.[2][3]

          Browne then spent a further two years at University of Cambridge studying the languages of India (defined then as H