Fran Christian Danilovich (Christian Martin)

(1782-1851) was born in Rostock. Receiving secondary education in the Rostock gymnasium, in 1800, Mr.. became a student at the University of Rostock, where under the guidance of the famous orientalist Tsihsena with particular zeal began to study oriental languages and numismatics. After three years of classes he attended lectures at the universities of GцІttingen and Tц?bingen. Received in Rostock degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Science free and Doctor of Theology, the title of a privat-docent. In 1807, Mr.. on the recommendation Tsihsena, has been appointed full professor at Kazan University in the Department of Oriental Languages.
Professor Fran is the founder of oriental studies in Kazan, Kazan first numismatist scholar and pioneer of the rational study of antiquities of the local edge. In all these areas he has set benchmarks for future research and have scientific methods and paths followed by his successors. In pursuit of these coins to the study of antiquities - a method school Tsihsena - Fran the first time outlined the history of science of the Golden Horde and the ancient Bulgarian kingdom, . restored a number of khans Kipchak kingdom, . ob'yaseniya gave their names, . illuminated the dark questions of ancient geography of the region and so on,
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An important merit Freni was also in his description of the disassembly and assembly of Oriental (primarily Mongol) coins, owned by local collectors: Prof.. Fuchs, Neelova landlord and owner of the private pension Poto, of which the first and last meetings were subsequently purchased by the University of Kazan. Sam Fran was an avid collector of Oriental manuscripts.

Since 1817, Mr.. - In the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.