Sir William Jones (1746–1794)
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Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. 2: Modern India and Pakistan (Introduction to Oriental Civilizations) (1958) — Mitwirkender — 168 Exemplare
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- Youns Uksfardi (Jones from Oxford)
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- 1746-09-28
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- 1794-04-27
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- South Park Street Cemetery, Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata, India
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- England
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- London, England, UK
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- Calcutta, India
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- Calcutta, India
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- Harrow School
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- Jones was the first English scholar to master Sanskrit, and the immense development of comparative philology which was to arise from the knowledge of it was foreshadowed by him in a sentence in a private letter dated 27 Sept. 1787: «You would be astonished at the resemblance between that language [Sanskrit] and both Greek and Latin» (Lord Teignmouth, Memoirs of Sir William Jones, ed. 1807, ii. 128).
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This document gets three stars for its historical significance--introducing the Indo-European language family, world!--but I don't like the way he excludes Islamic civilization from his cozy primeval Ursprung, and I wonder why the oldies always liked to learnedly pronounce on shit they couldn't even prove (about mythic correspondences, Janus being Ganesha, Jupiter being the Hindu trinity[!], shit like that) like it was facts.
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