John Andrew Boyle (1916−1978), was a British orientalist and historian.

Life and career

He was born at Worcester Park, Surrey, England, on 10 March 1916. He graduated with first class honours in German at

Birmingham University , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

. He later pursued the studies of Oriental languages at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen. He completed his doctoral dissertation under the guidance of

Vladimir Minorsky Vladimir Fyodorovich Minorsky (russian: Владимир Фёдорович Минорский; – March 25, 1966) was a Russian Orientalist best known for his contributions to the study of Persian, Lurish and Kurdish history, geography, ...

. He later became a professor of Persian at

Manchester University , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

. He produced a Persian dictionary and a grammar book of modern

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. He was the only European ever to receive the Iranian order of Sepas.

Bibliography

He was the author of the following books: * The history of the world-conqueror / 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvaini. - Manchester : Manchester Univ. Press, 1958 (2 Bände) * Grammar of modern Persian / by John Andrew Boyle. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1966 (Porta linguarum orientalium ; N.S., 9) * The successors of Genghis Khan / Rašīd-ad-Dīn Faḍlallāh. - New York .a.: Columbia Univ. Press, 1971 * The Cambridge history of Iran / oard of ed. A. J. Arberry ...Vol. 5: The Saljuq and Mongol periods / ed. by J. A. Boyle. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1968 * The Ilāhī-Nāma or Book of God of Farīd al-Din ʿAṭṭār / transl. from the Persian by John Andrew Boyle. With a foreword by Annemarie Schimmel. Manchester : Univ. Press, 1976 (Persian heritage series) * The Mongol World Empire : 1206 - 1370 / John Andrew Boyle. London : Variorum Reprints, 1977 (Collected studies series ; 58)

References

External links

* https://archive.org/details/historyoftheworl011648mbp * http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0015587X.1979.9716129?journalCode=rfol20#.UmJthnDXCE4 * http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/boyle-john-andrew-1916-78-british-orientalist {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyle, John Andrew 1916 births 1978 deaths Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester 20th-century British historians English orientalists Iranologists Zoroastrian studies scholars 20th-century translators Alumni of the University of Birmingham