premise: Tilman Frasch is a historian working at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a leading expert in Burmese historical sources of the Pagan period. Frasch received his PhD in Heidelberg in 1994 with a work about the Pagan kingdom, titled "Pagan: Stadt und Staat.
hypothesis: Frasch became a doctor six years prior to the turn of the century.
reason: This was 1994.