Edmund Martin Herzig (born February 1958) is a

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professor, historian, and author. He is currently the

Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies The Masoumeh and Fereydoon Soudavar Professorship of Persian Studies is a Chair at the University of Oxford, England, associated with the Faculty of Oriental Studies and Wadham College. The Chair was inaugurated in 1990.Ali Banuazizi (2019). Ali R ...

, he is part of the faculty of Oriental studies at the

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, and also has served (1988–2006) as a lecturer in Iranian studies at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

. His principal areas of research are the histories of

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, the

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, and the

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with an emphasis on the Armenians of Iran.

Education

Herzig received his BA in Russian and Persian from the

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, while he received his DPhil in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. His graduation thesis was entitled 'The Armenian Merchants of New Julfa, Isfahan: A Study in Pre-Modern Asian Trade'.

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