Abstract
Leitner was Hungarian by birth and “an Austrian
Subject”. As an intelligent young student he learnt the major
languages of the Islamic countries (e.g. Arabic, Turkish, Persian
and later on Urdu) and completed the Islamic studies from the
well-known madrassahs of Istanbul. After migration to England
(September 1858), he first got admitted in King’s College,
London, where, later on, he became the Professor of Arabic
studies.
In 1862, he decided to surrender his Austro-Hungarian
citizenship and tried to get the naturalization of England. For
this purpose, he completed all the relevant procedural
formalities and finally succeeded in becoming citizen of Great
Britain afterwards. Luckily, all the hand-written documents
relating to his case of naturalization are safely preserved in the
library of the Public Record Office, London.1
Still unpublished,
all the material, contained in this file is being revealed in this
article.
Muhammad Ikram Chaghatai. (2018) G.W. LEITNER’S* CERTIFICATE FOR NATURALIZATION , Bazyaft, Vol 33, Issue 2.
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