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Austrian explorer, translator, diplomat, orientalist (1774-1856)

Also known as: Hammer, Hammer-Purgstall, Josef von Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph Freiherr Hammer von Purgstall, Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von Hammer

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Known works

Geschichte der Ilchane (1842)
Codices Arabicos, Persicos, Turcicos, Bibliothecæ Cæsareo-Regio-Palatinæ Vindobonensis
Histoire de l'Empire ottoman
Geschichte der Ilchane, das ist der Mongolen in Persien, 1200-1350
Geschichte der Osmanischen Dichtkunst bis auf unsere Zeit