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Born September 28, 1746 • London • England
Died April 27, 1794 (aged 47) • Kolkata • India
Founder Asiatic Society of Bengal
Subjects Of Study Asia • Persian language • Sanskrit language • culture • grammar
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Theodor Benfey
German scholar
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James Owen Dorsey
American ethnologist
Palmer, E.H.: The Desert of the Exodus
E.H. Palmer
British linguist
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H.A. Giles
British scholar
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
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Alfred M. Tozzer
American anthropologist
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Otto von Böhtlingk
Russian linguist
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Charles Rockwell Lanman
American scholar
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David Samuel Margoliouth
British scholar
Henry George Liddell
Henry George Liddell
British lexicographer
Sir Richard Burton
Sir Richard Burton
British scholar and explorer
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Edmund Gosse
British critic and writer
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Sir Richard Baker
British author
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Terence Tiller
British writer
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Constance Garnett
English translator
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
Otto Jespersen
Otto Jespersen
Danish linguist
August Schleicher
August Schleicher
German linguist
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Ahmed Ali
Pakistani writer