Edward Henry Palmer
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1840 – 1882
Who was Edward Henry Palmer?
Edward Henry Palmer was an English orientalist.
Palmer was born in Green Street, Cambridge the son of a private schoolmaster. He was orphaned at an early age and brought up by an aunt. He was educated at The Perse School, and as a schoolboy showed the characteristic bent of his mind by picking up the Romany tongue and a great familiarity with the life of the Gypsies. From school he was sent to London as a clerk in the city. Palmer disliked this life, and varied it by learning French and Italian, mainly by frequenting the society of foreigners wherever he could find it.
In 1859 he returned to Cambridge, almost dying of consumption. He made a miraculous recovery, and in 1860, while he was thinking of a new start in life, fell in with Sayyid Abdallah, teacher of Hindustani at Cambridge, under whose influence he began his Oriental studies. He matriculated at St John's College in November 1863, and in 1867 was elected a fellow on account of his attainments as an orientalist, especially in Persian and Hindustani.
During his residence at St Johns he catalogued the Persian, Arabic and Turkish manuscripts in the university library, and in the libraries of Kings and Trinity.
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- Born
- Aug 7, 1840
Cambridge - Education
- The Perse School
- Died
- Aug 10, 1882
- Resting place
- St Paul's Cathedral
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on July 23, 2013
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