Sir William Jones (1746–1794)
Autor(a) de An essay on the law of bailments
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Obras por Sir William Jones
Associated Works
The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts (1977) — Tradutor, algumas edições — 440 exemplares
Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. 2: Modern India and Pakistan (Introduction to Oriental Civilizations) (1958) — Contribuidor — 168 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Youns Uksfardi (Jones from Oxford)
- Data de nascimento
- 1746-09-28
- Data de falecimento
- 1794-04-27
- Localização do túmulo
- South Park Street Cemetery, Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata, India
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- England
Great Britain - País (no mapa)
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- London, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Calcutta, India
- Locais de residência
- Calcutta, India
- Educação
- Harrow School
Oxford University (University College) - Ocupações
- philologist
lawyer
judge
poet
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- 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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Discourses Delivered Before the Asiatic Society… por William Jones
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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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 17
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 42
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 34
- Línguas
- 1