Charles Otto Blagden

Charles Otto Blagden
Portrait photograph of Charles Otto Blagden
Born(1864-09-06)6 September 1864
Died25 August 1949(1949-08-25) (aged 84)
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Oxford
Known forStudy of Mon and Pyu inscriptions
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics

Charles Otto Blagden (6 September 1864 – 25 August 1949)[1][2] was an English Orientalist and linguist who specialised in the Malay, Mon and Pyu languages. He is particularly known for his studies of Burmese epigraphic inscriptions in the Mon and Pyu scripts.

  1. ^ Enthoven, R. E. (July 1950). "Obituaries: Charles Otto Blagden". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. New Series. 82 (3–4): 209–210. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00104083.
  2. ^ "Obituary: C. O. Blagden". Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 23. 1950.