Sir William Jones | |
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| Puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal | |
| In office 22 October 1783[1] – 27 April 1794[2] | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 October 1746[3] Westminster, London, England |
| Died | 27 April 1794 (aged 47) Calcutta, Bengal Presidency |
| Resting place | South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, India |
| Spouse |
Anna Maria Shipley (m. 1783) |
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Sir William Jones FRS FRAS FRSE (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a Welsh philologist, orientalist and a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India. He is particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which later came to be known as the Indo-European languages.
Jones also founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta in 1784 and continued to expand his knowledge of Eastern languages, particularly Sanskrit, at the University of Nadiya.[4]
- ^ Curley, Thomas M. (1998). Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, & Empire in the Age of Johnson. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 353. ISBN 0299151506. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
- ^ Curley 1998, p. 434.
- ^ The Letters of Sir William Jones. 1970.
- ^ Jones also founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta in 1784 and continued to expand his knowledge of Eastern languages, particularly Sanskrit, at the University of Nadiya.