Group of Dards with Wilhem Gottlieb Leitner, at (?)Lahore
0000; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Resumo
Portrait group of Wilhelm Gottlieb Leitner (seated centre), with eight other figures. This photograph appears as the tipped-in frontispeice to Leitner's 'The Languages and Races of Dardistan' (Government Central Book Depot, Lahore, 1877), there captioned 'Group of Dards, etc.' In that volume the figures are identified as follows (left to right): Mirza Beg, an Astori (Sunni Muhammadan); Ghulam Muhammad, a Ghilghiti (Shiah Muhammadan); Dr Leitner's Hindustani Munshi; Dr Leitner; Kazim, from Skardo (Little Tibet); A Chilasi (standing); Batshu (a Bashgeli Kafir, sitting). 'The man in the white dress is Malek, also a Kalasha Kafir, subject of Chitral; the last man on the rightis Gharib Shah, a Chilasi.' Photograph possibly taken in Lahore. Wilhelm Gottlieb Leitner (1840-1899) became Professor of Arabic and Islamic Law at King's College, London in 1861 and was appointed Principal of the Government College, Lahore in 1864. After his retirement in 1887, he acquired the Royal Dramatic College at Woking and adapted it to an Oriental Institute. Among his many scholarly interests was the study of Dardistan, the area comprising Gilgit, Astor, Chitral and the Dir States. Among his many works on education, Indian art and philology, was 'The Hunza and Nagyr Handbook' (Woking, 1893). From 1890 he was editor of the 'Asiatic Quarterly Review'. See also print 4430. Mount annotated 'From Dr. Leitner's negative 1/7/73.'. Photographer: Leitner, Gottlieb Wilhelm.
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