Nicholas Sims-Williams

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Nicholas Sims-Williams (2013)

Nicholas Sims-Williams (born April 11, 1949 in Chatham ) is a British Iranist and Orientalist with a chair at the renowned School of Oriental and African Studies in London . His research focus lies in the area of Central Asian history, in particular the Central Iranian languages Sogdian and Bactrian .

Nicholas Sims-Williams studied and graduated (with the doctoral degree Ph.D. ) at Cambridge University ( Trinity Hall , 1975 Gonville and Caius College ). For his doctoral thesis on the translation of an early Christian text fragment from Syrian into Sogdian, which was published under the title “The Christian Sogdian manuscript C2” (Berlin, 1985), he received the Prix Ghirshman of the Institut de France . In 1988 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and is a member of both the Austrian Academy of Sciencesas well as the French Académie des Sciences and the American Philosophical Society . In 2012 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .

Nicholas Sims-Williams is involved in several publications on the " Documents of Bactria " discovered in 1957 . He has also written several articles for the Encyclopædia Iranica .

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 (part 1), ISBN 0-7286-0194-X (part 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. Vol . 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 historical significance (= 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 Musée Archéologique Henri-Prades-Lattes du 5 au 7 May 2003 (= Indicopleustoi. Archaeologies of the Indian Ocean. Vol. 3). Brepols, Turnhout 2005, ISBN 2-503-51681-5 , pp. 335-346.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exegisti monumenta: Festschrift in Honor of Nicholas Sims-Williams , Wiesbaden 2009, p. XIII. ( Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Membership directory: Nicholas John Sims-Williams. Academia Europaea, accessed January 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Sims-Williams, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sims-Williams, Nicholas John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Iranian and Orientalist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Chatham