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Edward Granville Browne
Image: Charles Haslewood Shannon (c. 1912), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Edward Granville Browne

إدوارد غرانفيل براون

Notable figure 1862–1926 · Source: Johann Fück, Tarikh harakat al-istishraq (Die arabischen Studien in Europa), trans. ʿUmar Lutfi al-ʿAlim, 2nd ed., Dar al-Madar al-Islami, Beirut 2001, p. 292 · Second source: Encyclopaedia Iranica, s.v. «Browne, Edward Granville»

Field: Chair of Arabic

Affiliation

Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic, Cambridge, 1902–26

Biography

He studied medicine at Cambridge and Oriental languages there under William Wright, succeeded Charles Rieu in the Arabic chair in 1902 and held it until his death. Most of what he wrote is on Persian and its literature, so he belongs here by the chair. He made a hand-list of the Islamic manuscripts of Cambridge University Library (1900) and lectured on Arabian medicine.