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See also: English traveller and See also: scholar, was See also: born near See also: Dijon on the 28th of See also: March 1787
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His youth was spent at
See also: Bristol
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He early See also: developed a gift for See also: languages, becoming See also: familiar not only with Latin arid See also: Greek but also with See also: Hebrew, See also: Syriac, Persian, See also: Turkish and other Eastern tongues
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In 1804 See also: Rich went to Constantinople, where, and at See also: Smyrna, he stayed some See also: time, perfecting himself in Turkish
.
Proceeding, to Alexandria as assistant to the See also: British See also: consul-general there, he devoted himself to Arabic and its various dialects, and made himself master of Eastern See also: manners and usages
.
,On leaving See also: Egypt he travelled by See also: land to the Persian Gulf, disguised as a Mameluke, visiting See also: Damascus, and entering the See also: great mosque undetected
.
At Bombay, which he reached in See also: September 18o7, he was the See also: guest of See also: Sir See also: James
See also: Mackintosh, whose eldest daughter he married in See also: January 18o8, proceeding soon after to See also: Bagdad as See also: resident
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There he began his investigations into the geography, See also: history and antiquities of the See also: district
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He explored the remains of See also: Babylon, and projected ,a See also: geographical and statistical account of the pashalic of Bagdad
.
The results of his • See also: work at Babylon appeared first in. the Vienna serial Mines de l'orient, and in 1815 in See also: England, under the title Narrative of a Journey to the Site o f Babylon in a8x.r
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In 1813–14 Rich spent some dine in See also: Europe, and on his return to Bagdad devoted himself to the study of the geography of See also: Asia Minor, and collected much information in Syrian and Chaldaean convents concerning the See also: Yezidis
.
During this See also: period he made a second excursion to Bahylon, and in 182o undertook an extensive tour to Kurdistan—from Bagdad See also: north to Sulimania, eastward to Sinna, then- west to See also: Nineveh, and thence down the Tigris to Bagdad
.
The narrative of this journey, which contained the first accurate knowledge (from scientific observation) regarding the topography and geography of the region, was published by his widow under the title, Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan and on the site ofSee also: Ancient Nineveh, &c
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(See also: London, 1836)
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In 1821 Rich went to Basora, whence he made an excursion to See also: Shiraz, visiting the ruins of See also: Persepolis and the other remains in the neighbourhood
.
At Shiraz he died of cholera on the 5th of See also: October 1821
.
His See also: fine collections of See also: manuscripts and coins was See also: purchased by the British Museum
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