Joseph Amyot Padjan is a grammarian, writer, and independent researcher. He is the author of three books—Huns and Slavs, The Padjanaks, and The Kangar—as well as a number of monographs, the most important of which are Anomalous and Kurdish Surnames in Croatia and Symphorose Ouaouagoukoué and The Origin of the Illini. His demonstrating that the Padjanaks were the Kushans has profound implications for our understanding and interpretation of history.
Random facts about Joseph Amyot Padjan:
He is self-taught.
His favorite subject is English grammar. He knows almost all of Harper’s English Grammar by heart, verbatim, and recites the book over and over, for pleasure, and has done so for more than thirty years.
He always reads aloud.
His favorite writers are John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, George Berkeley, Henry St. John (Lord Bolingbroke), Joseph Addison, James Anthony Froude, and Edmund Burke.
He loves classical music.
He does calisthenics every day.
