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Nicholas Sims-Williams

ニコラス・シムズ＝ウィリアムズ　/　にこらす・しむず＝うぃりあむず

Orientalist from United Kingdom

April 11, 1949 (age 77)　・　Chatham, United Kingdom

orientalist

My Take

I have deep admiration for scholars like Nicholas Sims-Williams. Born in Chatham and a Research Professor of Iranian and Central Asian studies at SOAS, he spends his life decoding languages most of us have never heard of, like Sogdian and Bactrian, breathing meaning back into documents that have been silent for millennia. His Fellowship of the British Academy testifies to decades of painstaking work far from any spotlight. Without specialists of his patience, whole chapters of human memory would vanish into the dark. There is a quiet heroism in that labour, and I find these unsung giants genuinely moving.

Overview

Nicholas John Sims-Williams, FBA (born 11 April 1949, Chatham, Kent) is a British professor of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where he is the Research Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies at the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Near and Middle East.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Nicholas Sims-Williams
Name (Japanese): ニコラス・シムズ＝ウィリアムズ
Reading: にこらす・しむず＝うぃりあむず
Born: April 11, 1949 (age 77)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aries / Ox
Origin: Chatham, United Kingdom
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Occupation: orientalist

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Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%EF%BC%9D%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA

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