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Anton Schiefner

Baltic german linguist and tibetologist (1817–1879).

Born June 18th, 1817 in Tallinn.

Died November 28th, 1879 at 62 years old in Saint Petersburg.

Occupations
Tibetologist, ethnologist, librarian, linguist, orientalist

For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on. Bram Stoker