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GOTTLIEB WILHELM LEITNER (184o-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 404 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEITNER (184o-1899)  , Anglo-Hungarian orientalist, was See also:born at See also:Budapest in 1840 . He was the son of a physician, and was educated at See also:Malta See also:Protestant See also:college . At the See also:age of fifteen he acted as an interpreter in the See also:Crimean See also:War . He entered See also:King's College, See also:London, in 1858, and in 1861 was appointed See also:professor of Arabic and See also:Mahommedan See also:law . He became See also:principal of the See also:government college at See also:Lahore in 1864, and there originated the See also:term " See also:Dardistan " for a portion of the mountains on the See also:north-See also:west frontier, which was subsequently recognized to be a purely artificial distinction . He collected much valuable See also:information on Graeco-Buddhist See also:art and the origins of See also:Indian art . He spoke, read and wrote twenty-five See also:languages . He founded an See also:oriental See also:institute at See also:Woking, and for some years edited the See also:Asiatic Quarterly See also:Review . He died at See also:Bonn in 1899 . See J . H . Stocqueler, See also:Life and Labours of Dr See also:Leitner (1875) .

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