Bert G. Fragner (27 November 1941 – 16 December 2021) was an Austrian Iranologist.
Career 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.
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.
Fragner died on 16 December 2021, at the age of 80.برت فراگنر درگذشت ISNA website, on 16 December 2021 (Persian)
Bibliography (selected) 1979: Persische Memoirenliteratur als Quelle zur neueren Geschichte Irans (Freiburger Islamstudien) (German). Steiner. amazon.de Retrieved: 28 October 2023 1994: From the Caucasus to the Roof of the World: a culinary adventure. London. fis.uni-bamberg.de Retrieved: 28 October 2023 1999: Die Persophonie. Regionalität, Identität und Sprachkontakt in der Geschichte Asiens (German). Traugott Bautz. amazon.de Retrieved: 28 October 2023
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Fragner, Bert G. (1999). Die Persophonie: Regionalität, Identität und Sprachkontakt in der Geschichte Asiens. Berlin: Das Arabische Buch. . 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. .