Bert G. Fragner (27 November 1941 – 16 December 2021) was an Austrian Iranologist.

Career[edit]

He was director of the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 2003 to 2010. Before Fragner taught Iranology at the University of Bamberg from 1984 – 2003. He made several research trips to Central Asia.^[1]

On 16 July 2010, Fragner was awarded the Dr. Mahmoud Afshar Prize at the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, for helping to promote Persian and Iranian culture and history.^[2]

Fragner died on 16 December 2021, at the age of 80.^[3]

Bibliography (selected)[edit]

• 1979: Persische Memoirenliteratur als Quelle zur neueren Geschichte Irans (Freiburger Islamstudien) (German). Steiner. ISBN 3515027319^[4]
• 1994: From the Caucasus to the Roof of the World: a culinary adventure. London. ISBN 1850437424^[5]
• 1999: Die Persophonie. Regionalität, Identität und Sprachkontakt in der Geschichte Asiens (German). Traugott Bautz. ISBN 978-3959480284^[6]

References[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

• Fragner, Bert G. (1999). Die Persophonie: Regionalität, Identität und Sprachkontakt in der Geschichte Asiens. Berlin: Das Arabische Buch. ISBN 3860932292.
• Fragner, Bert G. (2000). "From the Caucasus to the Roof of the World: a culinary adventure". In Sami Zubaida and Richard Tapper: A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East (2nd ed.). London & New York: Tauris Parke Paperbacks. ISBN 1-86064-603-4.