40 years of correspondence between two leading orientalists in Russia, often concerning Georgian mat 1840 - 1879

Bernard Dorn

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• Sobre la obra de arte
  [21 autograph letters, signed, to Marie-Félicité Brosset].
  Saint Petersburg, ca. 1840-1879. 8vo (letters, mostly 21 x 13.5 cm) and folio (list of publications). Letters in French with an occasional (Persian?) word in Arabic script, written in black ink on paper, some with the address on the outside and one with Dorn's (Persian?) red wax seal in Arabic script.
  
  With: (2) [Manuscript chronological numbered list of 34 publications by Dorn, 1843-1865].
  [Saint Petersburg, ca. 1865].
  
  Signed autograph letters written over nearly 40 years by the German-born orientalist in Saint Petersburg, Bernard Dorn (1805-1881) to (or in one case for) his Paris-born colleague Marie-Félicité Brosset (1802-1880), mostly while Brosset was at the Hermitage Museum and Dorn at the Asiatic Museum, both in Saint Petersburg. The letters revolve around their mutual professional interest in oriental languages, particularly in Georgia (Tiflis is explicitly mentioned), and in numismatics. Dorn and Brosset were nearly the same age, came to Saint Petersburg at nearly the same time, and the present letters show that they also developed a close personal friendship, sometimes referring to their families.
  Some letters with embossed stamps. Some of the letters were sealed and therefore have small tears where Brosset broke the seals, but all are in good or very good condition. In 3 letters the ink has bled through a bit.
• Sobre el artista
  Bernhard Dorn (1805, Scheierfeld - 1881, San Petersburgo), nombre completo Johannes Albrecht Bernhard Dorn, también llamado Boris Andreevich Dorn, estudió teología y filología en Halle y Leipzig. Dorn fue profesor en la Universidad de Leipzig durante algún tiempo. En 1829 fue nombrado profesor de lenguas orientales en la Universidad de Jarkov. En 1835 fue trasladado a San Petersburgo como profesor de historia y geografía en el Departamento de Asia del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Rusia. Dorn también enseñó sánscrito y pashtu en la Universidad de San Petersburgo. Ingresó en la Academia de Ciencias de Rusia en 1839. Publicó varios trabajos de historia y muchos estudios sobre los idiomas que dominaba, especialmente los afganos.