Edward William West
English engineer, orientalist, and translator
About Edward William West
Lived 1824 – 1905 (aged 80–81). Edward William West was an engineer, indologist and translator.
Edward William West (1824–1905), usually styled E. W. West, was a scholarly English engineer, orientalist, and translator of Zoroastrian texts. He was educated at King's College London. He prepared five volumes of Pahlavi texts (the Marvels of Zoroastrianism) for Prof. Max Müller's monumental Sacred Books of the East series, published from the years 1880 to 1897.
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English engineer, orientalist, and translator
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Edward William West was born in 1824.
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Edward William West died on 4 February 1905.
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Edward William West was an engineer, indologist and translator.
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