Edward William West

Edward William West

Edward William West (1824-1905), usually styled E. W. West, was a scholarly English engineer, orientalist, and translator of Zoroastrian texts. He prepared five volumes of Pahlavi texts (the "Marvels of Zoroastrianism") for Prof. Max Müller's monumental Sacred Books of the East series, published from the years 1880 to 1897.


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