Falakī, Maḥmūd Bāshā, 1814 or 1815-1885

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Name (Latin)
Falakī, Maḥmūd Bāshā, 1814 or 1815-1885
Name (Arabic)
الفلكي، محمود باشا، 1814 أو 1815-1885
Other forms of name
nnea Falakī, Maḥmūd Bāshā, 1814 or 15-1885
Felekı̂, Mahmut, 1814 or 1815-1885
Maḥmūd Bāshā al-Falakī, 1814 or 1815-1885
Mahmud Paşa el-Felekı̂, 1814 or 1815-1885
Mahmut Paşa el-Felekı̂, 1814 or 1815-1885
فلكي، محمود باشا، 1814 أو 1815-1885
الفلكي، محمود أحمد حمدي، 1814 أو 1815-1885
الفلكي، محمود حمدي، 1814 أو 1815-1885
محمود باشا الفلكي، 1814 أو 1815-1885
أحمد، محمود، 1814 أو 1815-1885
Date of birth
[1814,1815]
Date of death
1885
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 225089757
Wikidata: Q6854381
Library of congress: no2001052857
Sources of Information
  • Mısır ehramları, 1893:t.p. (Mısır Maarif Nazır-ı esbakı el-merhum Mahmut Paşa el-Feleki)
  • Ziriklī(Maḥmūd Bāshā al-Falakī; Maḥmūd Aḥmad Ḥamdī Bāshā, called Maḥmūd Ḥamdī, al-Falakī; 1230-1302/1815-1885)
  • Brockelmann(Maḥmūd Bāšā al-Falakī; d. Nov. 30, 1885)
  • Kaḥḥālah(Maḥmūd al-Falakī; Maḥmūd Aḥmad Ḥamdī al-Falakī; 1230-1302/1815-1885)
  • Büyük lûgat ve ansik.(Felekı̂ (Mahmud Paşa, El-); Egyptian geographer; 1805-1885)
  • Özegeno. 13461 (Mahmut Paşa El-Felekı̂)
  • محمود حمدي الفلكي، 1964:صفحة 25 (محمود أحمد، ولد عام 1815) صفحة 45 (توفي 19 يوليو عام 1885)
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Wikipedia description:

Mahmud Ahmad Hamdi al-Falaki (1815-19 July 1885) was an Egyptian engineer, mathematician and scientist. He was born in al-Hissa, Gharbia Governorate. He was Egypt's representative at the Third International Geographical Congress and Exhibition, Venice, Italy, 1881. Mahmud Ahmad Hamdi al-Falaki also excavated and surveyed Alexandria in 1866 for producing a plan of the ancient town. His plan was later dismissed in the English speaking world as unreliable (while continental European archeologists and historians used it). Recent discoveries confirmed that the plan made by Mahmud Ahmad Hamdi al-Falaki is reliable.

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