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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Emmanuel Forchhammer

Dates:  1851, 12 March - 1890, 26 April
Born:  Switzerland
 
  

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John Falconer, British Library 
A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia

 
Amateur, Burma
The son of a protestant pastor; educated in Switzerland and New Orleans; originally graduated and practised as a doctor, but turned to the study of languages and travelled extensively among the American Indians; to Leipzig, 1875, to study Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese and Arabic; appointed professor of Pali at Government High School, Rangoon, in 1879; pursued research into the sacred and vernacular texts of Burma; employed on archaeological investigations and made a survey (with photographs) of Arakan; surveyed temple ruins of Pagan in 1888.
 
Orientalist and Professor of Pali at the Government High School, Rangoon from 1879. Photographed extensively during his archaeological survey of Arakan.
 
Publications: Notes on the Shwe Dagon Pagoda (Rangoon, 1883); Antiquities of Arakan (Rangoon, 1892). 
  
 
  

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