Albert Houtum Schindler : a remarkable polymath in late-Qajar Iran / D.T. Potts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potts, Daniel T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Houtum-Schindler, Albert, 1846-1916.

Houtum-Schindler, Albert.

Iran--History--Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925.

Iran.

Physical Description:

xvii, 486 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Fredricksburg, PA?] : Mage Publishers, [2023]

Summary:

"Widely regarded in his lifetime as the greatest living authority on all things Iranian, across an enormous range of disciplines, Albert Houtum Schindler lived and worked in Iran from 1868 to 1911. All who either met or corresponded with him came away praising his encyclopaedic knowledge and remarkable insight. A member of numerous learned societies in Europe, he sustained a wide web of intellectual contacts and was insatiably curious. As an employee of the Indo-European Telegraph Department, the Imperial Bank of Persia and the Persian Bank Mining Rights Corporation, he experienced firsthand the ups and downs of Iran's slow but inexorable movement towards modernity. Yet when he died in 1916 his obituaries were frustratingly brief. Private when it came to the details of his personal life, Albert Houtum Schindler gave little away. This book is the first full-scale examination of the life and legacy of an extraordinary witness to the late-Qajar period and the land, people and history of Iran."--Back cover.

Contents:

Origins & youth (1846-1867)

The Indo-European Telegraph Department (1868-1875)

The Persian Telegraph (1875-1881)

Inspector General of Mines (1882-1884)

Naser al-Din Shah's 'Navy' (1885-1887)

Overseeing banks and mineral prospection in the interest of British capital (1888-1893)

Schindler & Curzon (1890-1894)

Second marriage and Eastern Persian Iraq (1894-1897)

New responsibilities and final years (1898-1916)

Retrospect

Appendices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-461) and index.

ISBN:

1949445585

9781949445589

OCLC:

1389607890

Publisher Number:

99994716653