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CHRISTIAN MARTIN FRAHN (1782-1851)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 773 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHRISTIAN See also:MARTIN See also:FRAHN (1782-1851)  , See also:German numismatist and historian, was See also:born at See also:Rostock . He began his See also:Oriental studies under Tychsen at the university of Rostock, and afterwards prosecuted them at See also:Gottingen and See also:Tubingen . He became a Latin See also:master in See also:Pestalozzi's famous See also:institute in 1804, returned See also:home in 18o6, and in the following See also:year was chosen to fill the See also:chair of Oriental See also:languages in the See also:Russian university of Kazan . Though in 1815 he was invited to succeed Tychsen at Rostock, he preferred to go to St See also:Petersburg, where he became director of the See also:Asiatic museum and councillor of See also:state . He died at St Petersburg . See also:Frahn wrote over 15o See also:works . Among the more important are: Numophylacium orientale Pototianum (1813) ; De numorum Bulgharicorum fonte antiquissimo (1816) ; See also:Des muhammedanische Miinzkabinet des asiatischen Museum der kaiserl . Akademie der Wissenschaf ten zu St Petersburg (1821); Numi cufici ex variis museis selecti (1823); See also:Notice d'une centaine d'ouvrages arabes, See also:lac., qui manquent en grande pantie aux bibliotheques de l'See also:Europe (1834); and Nova supplementa ad recensionem Num . Muham . Acad . See also:Imp . Sci .

Petropolitanae (1855) . His description of some medals struck by the Samanid and Bouid princes (1804) was composed in Arabic because he had no Latin types .

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