# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinrich-blochmann
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:31:23.839Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heinrich-blochmann"
name: "Heinrich Blochmann"
slug: "heinrich-blochmann"
description: "Heinrich Blochmann, known as Henry Ferdinand Blochmann, was a German orientalist and scholar of Persian language and literature who spent most of his career in India, where he worked first as a professor, and eventually as the principal at Calcutta Madrasa, now Aliah University in present Kolkata. He is also remembered for one of the first major English translations of Ain-i-Akbari, the 16th-century Persian language chronicle of Mughal emperor Akbar, published in 1873."
tagline: "German orientalist and scholar (1838–1878)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
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birthDate: "1838-01-08"
deathDate: "1878-07-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump