About Edward Henry Whinfield
Lived 1835 – 1922 (aged 86). Edward Henry Whinfield was a translator and barrister.
Edward Henry Whinfield (1836–1922) was a translator of Persian literature. He wrote the first well-commented English translations of Hafez and Rumi, as well as a side-by-side translation of 500 quatrains of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in 1883.
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Who was Edward Henry Whinfield?
translator of Persian literature
When was Edward Henry Whinfield born?
Edward Henry Whinfield was born on 28 August 1835.
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Edward Henry Whinfield died on 14 April 1922.
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Edward Henry Whinfield was a translator and barrister.
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