Charles Bawden

Charles Bawden

Charles Roskelly Bawden is Emeritus Professor of Mongolian in the University of London. From 1955 to 1984, he was a Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of Mongolian at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. He has written on Mongolian history and literature, and has published a Mongolian-English dictionary that is often cited as the most comprehensive available.[1] John Man was his student.[2][3]

In addition to having been elected a Fellow of the British Academy,[4] he was also awarded the Order of the Pole Star by the Mongolian government. He donated his books to the Ancient India & Iran Trust, Cambridge University. [5]

Works

  • The Mongol Chronicle Altan Tobci. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1955.
  • The Jebtsundamba Khutukhtus of Urga; text, translation, and notes. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1961.
  • The Modern History of Mongolia. New York: Praeger, 1968.
  • Shamans, Lamas, and Evangelicals: The English Missionaries in Siberia. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
  • Confronting the Supernatural: Mongolian Traditional Ways and Means. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994.
  • Mongolian-English dictionary. London: K. Paul International, 1997.
  • Mongolian Traditional Literature: An Anthology. London: Kegan Paul, 2003.

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