Nicholas Sims-Williams

Nicholas Sims -Williams (* April 11, 1949 in Chatham ) is a British orientalist and Iranist with a chair at the prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies in London. His research focus is in the field of Central Asian history, in particular the Middle Iranian Sogdian and Bactrian languages ​​.

Nicholas Sims -Williams studied and graduated ( with the doctoral degree Ph.D.) at Cambridge University ( Trinity Hall, 1975 Gonville and Caius College). For his PhD thesis on the translation of an early Christian text fragment from the Syriac into Sogdian, which was published under the title "The Christian Sogdian manuscript C2" (Berlin, 1985), he received the Prix Ghirshman the Institut de France. In 1988 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, further he is a member of both the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Sciences. He has also written several articles for the Encyclopædia Iranica.

Currently, Nicholas Sims -Williams is discovered at several publications on the 1957 " documents from Bactria " involved.

Publications

  • Sogdian and other Iranian Inscriptions of the Upper Indus ( = Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum Part 2:. . Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia Volume 3: . Sogdian 2, 1-2). 2 parts. School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1989-1992, ISBN 0-7286-0153-2 ( Tl 1), ISBN 0-7286-0194- X ( Tl 2).
  • Bactrian ownership inscriptions. In: Bulletin of the Asia Institute. Vol 7, 1993, ISSN 0890-4464. Pp. 173-179.
  • New light on ancient Afghanistan. The decipherment of Bactrian. School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1997, ISBN 0-7286-0278-4.
  • Legal and economic documents ( = Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum Part 2:. . Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia Volume 6: Bactrian: .. Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan Tl 1 = Studies in the Khalili Collection Bd. 3, 1). Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Edition and Oxford University Press, London 2000, ISBN 0-19-727502-8.
  • Recent discoveries in the Bactrian language and Their Significance historical ( = SPACH Library Series. Vol. 4). Society for the Preservation of Afghanistan 's Cultural Heritage, Kabul 2004.
  • Some Bactrian seal- inscriptions. In: Osmund Bopearachchi, Marie- Françoise Boussac (ed.): Afghanistan - ancien carrefour entre l' est et l' ouest. Actes du colloque international au Archaeological Museum Henri- Prades- Lattes du 5 au 7 mai 2003 ( = Indicopleustoi. Archaeologies of the Indian Ocean. Vol. 3). Brepols, Turnhout 2005, ISBN 2-503-51681-5, pp. 335-346.
Oriental studies SOAS, University of London Sogdian language University of Cambridge Trinity Hall, Cambridge Integrated Authority File
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