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Edward Henry Whinfield

Translator of Persian literature

  • Fame36.5
  • Momentum13.1
  • Wikipedia72
Lived 1835–1922, aged 87
  • Era
    1835–1922
    Aged 87
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Updated 2026-08-14

Edward Henry Whinfield (1836–1922) was a translator of Persian literature. He wrote the first well-commented English translations of Hafez and Rumi, as well as a side-by-side translation of 500 quatrains of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in 1883.

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