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Richard N. Frye

1920 - 2014

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Richard Nelson Frye (January 10, 1920 – March 27, 2014) was an American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University. His professional areas of interest were Iranian philology along with the history of ancient Iran and Central Asia. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, to a family of immigrants from Sweden, "Freij" had four children, his second marriage being to a scholar, who teaches at Columbia University. After serving in a non-combat role in Afghanistan during WW2, he joined Harvard as a researcher. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Richard N. Frye is the 347th most popular historian (up from 373rd in 2024), the 5,865th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,975th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Historian.

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Among Historians

Among historians, Richard N. Frye ranks 347 out of 561. Before her are Donald Keene, Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, Andrea Riccardi, Bobojon Ghafurov, Ernest Lavisse, and Philip K. Hitti. After her are Ernest Fenollosa, Serhii Plokhy, Arno Peters, Jérôme Carcopino, Nicholas Adontz, and Kurt Aland.

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Among people born in 1920, Richard N. Frye ranks 260. Before her are Silvestre Igoa, Machiko Hasegawa, Chushiro Hayashi, Harold Sakata, Siegfried Buback, and Fedora Barbieri. After her are Hans Ørberg, Henry Eriksson, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Mustafa Khalil, Bengt Ekerot, and Eugênio Sales. Among people deceased in 2014, Richard N. Frye ranks 249. Before her are Halet Çambel, Andréa Parisy, Małgorzata Braunek, U. R. Ananthamurthy, Julio Abbadie, and Knut Nystedt. After her are Károly Sándor, Simin Behbahani, Paolo Salvati, Harun Farocki, Klas Ingesson, and Fiorenzo Angelini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard N. Frye ranks 5,865 out of NaN. Before her are Matt Schulze (1972), Ambrose Burnside (1824), Bill Tuttle (1882), Titus Welliver (1962), Haskell Curry (1900), and Sam J. Jones (1954). After her are Walter Sutton (1877), Ralph Hartley (1888), Ernest Fenollosa (1853), Gus Hall (1910), Arleigh Burke (1901), and Alvan Graham Clark (1832).

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Among Historians In United States

Among historians born in United States, Richard N. Frye ranks 21. Before her are Richard G. Hovannisian (1932), William H. Prescott (1796), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Efraim Zuroff (1948), Robert Darnton (1939), and Donald Keene (1922). After her are Ernest Fenollosa (1853), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), Stanley G. Payne (1934), Stephen Greenblatt (1943), Mary Ritter Beard (1876), and Stephen E. Ambrose (1936).

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