Richard N. Frye

Richard Nelson Frye ( born January 10, 1920 in Birmingham, Alabama, † March 27, 2014 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American orientalist and historian.

Career

After the bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois Frye made ​​1940 the Master and Ph.D. in 1946 at Harvard University. He taught from 1948 to 1990 as a professor of Oriental and Iranian studies at Harvard, where he founded the Center for Middle Eastern Studies founded. Frye, who was also culturally and historically and philosophically interested, among other things, taught as a visiting professor in Frankfurt am Main (1958 /59), Hamburg (1968 /69) and in Shiraz. Frye was considered one of the most knowledgeable of the history of Iran and showed that the ancient Iran nachlebte in its Islamic successor states ( see for example Persia, 1962).

Writings

  • The Heritage of Persia, London, 1962 ( Eng.: Persia - Until the collapse of Islam, Zurich 1962)
  • Bukhara: The Medieval Achievement, Univ. Oklahoma 1965
  • The Golden Age of Persia, London 1993
  • The Heritage of Central Asia - From Antiquity to the Turkish expansion ( Markus Wiener Publishers), Princeton 1996, ISBN 1-55876-111- X
  • Persia ( Vol. 3), London 1969
  • The History of Ancient Iran, Handbook of Classical Studies, Munich 1984.
  • Greater Iran: A 20th -century Odyssey, Mazda Publishers, 2005, ISBN 1-56859-177-2

In addition, Frye wrote several articles for the Encyclopædia Iranica and was the editor of the fourth volume of the Cambridge History of Iran.

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