Guy_Le_Strange

Guy Le Strange

Guy Le Strange

English scholar and Orientalist (1854–1933)

Guy Le Strange (24 July 1854 – 24 December 1933) was a British Orientalist noted especially for his work in the field of the historical geography of the pre-modern Middle Eastern and Eastern Islamic lands, and his editing of Persian geographical texts.[1] He was a scholar of the Persian, Arabic, and Spanish languages.

Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500

Le Strange was one of the original trustees of the E. J. W. Gibb Memorial, an organisation which since 1905 has published the Gibb Memorial Series.

He was born in Brussels, Belgium,[2] the youngest child of Henry L'Estrange Styleman Le Strange of Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk, educated at Clifton College[3] and died in Cambridge.[4]

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  1. [1]
    Bosworth, C. Edmund (28 March 2014). "Le Strange, Guy". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  2. [2]
    Norfolk Record Office – le Strange Papers Ref: NC 22.
  3. [3]
    J. A. O. Muirhead, Clifton College Register, 1862 to 1947, Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith (for the Old Cliftonian Society), 1948, p. 383.
  4. [4]
    Probate Registry Grant – Feb 1934.


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