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Guy Le Strange
Guy
Le Strange
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. He was a scholar of the Persian,
Arabic
, and
Spanish languages
.
Gibb
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
, the
youngest
child
of
Henry L'Estrange Styleman Le Strange
of
Hunstanton
,
Norfolk
,
educated
at
Clifton College
and
died
in
Cambridge
.
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+
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