Arthur Emanuel Christensen | |
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| Born | (1875-01-09)9 January 1875 |
| Died | 31 March 1945(1945-03-31) (aged 70) |
Arthur Emanuel Christensen (9 January 1875 – 31 March 1945) was a Danish orientalist and scholar of Iranian philology and folklore.[1] He is best known for his works on the Iranian history, mythology, religions, medicine and music.
Biography
Christensen was born in Copenhagen in 1875.[2] He received his doctorate in 1903.[1] The book One Thousand and One Nights ignited his interest to the Middle East.[2] The subject of his doctorate dissertation was written about Omar Khayyam, a renowned Persian polymath.[2][3] In 1919 he was promoted to the professorship at the University of Copenhagen, being the first Danish academic to hold this title in the field of Iranian philology.[2]
Selected bibliography
- Recherches sur les Rubāʻiyat de ʻOmar Ḫayyām [Research on the Rubā‘iyāt of Omar Khayyam] (in French). Heidelberg: C. Winter. 1905. LCCN 07032000.
- "Orientalsk musikkultur" [Oriental Music Culture]. Ord och Bild (in Swedish). Stockholm: 463–474. 1910.
- Gatha Society, ed. (1918). "Some Notes on Persian Melody-Names of the Sasanian Period". Dastur Hoshang Memorial Volume: Being Papers on Iranian Subjects. Bombay: Fort Printing Press. OCLC 500234890.
- L'Iran sous les Sassanides [Iran under the Sassanids] (in French) (1st ed.). Copenhagen; Paris: Levin & Munksgaard; P. Geuthner. 1936. LCCN 37013450.
References
- Asmussen, Jes P. (15 December 1991). "CHRISTENSEN, ARTHUR EMANUEL". Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. 5. pp. 521–523. LCCN 84673402. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- Mette Hedemand Søltoft (2022). "The Danish Orientalist Arthur Christensen's Visit to Iran in 1929 and His Meeting with the Iranian Intelligentsia". Iranian Studies. Vol. 55, no. 1. p. 3. doi:10.1080/00210862.2020.1860402. S2CID 233902335.
- Vahaman, Fereydun (1969). آرتور کریستن سن ایران شناس و ایران دوست دانمارکی [Arthur Christensen, the Danish Iranologist and Iranophile]. Yaghmā (in Persian). No. 253. p. 383 – via Comprehensive Humanities Portal.
External links
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