Search results
Sep 24, 2024 · Sir William Jones was a British Orientalist and jurist who did much to encourage interest in Oriental studies in the West. Of Welsh parentage, he studied at Harrow and University College, Oxford (1764–68), and learned Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian.
Sir William Jones FRS FRAS FRSE (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a British philologist, orientalist and a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India.
威廉·琼斯爵士（Sir William Jones，1746年9月28日—1794年4月27日），英国东方学家、语言学家、法学家、翻译家、外语学习天才。 曾在印度当法官，用业余时间学习东方语言。
William Jones was a Welsh mathematician who corresponded with many of the important English mathematicians of his day.
- www.notablebiographies.com
- › …
- › Supplement (Fl-Ka)
Sir William Jones (1746–1794) was an English philologist, Orientalist, and jurist. While serving as a judge of the high court at Calcutta, he became a student of ancient India and founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
A renowned Enlightenment polymath, Sir William Jones (1746–94) was a lawyer, translator and poet who wrote authoritatively on politics, comparative linguistics and oriental literature.
William Jones, one of the greatest linguistic prodigies of the eighteenth-century, thoroughly fluent in English, Welsh, Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Sanskrit, was through the influence of his patron, the Earl Spencer (Jones had been tutor to his son), appointed in 1783 to the lucrative office of a judge on the Supreme Court of ...
View William Jones’ profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members. I moved to Singapore during the pandemic, after living and working in America, to keep… · Experience:...
- Nebius AI
For many students of late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century British intellectual and literary history, Sir William Jones (1746–94) has lately come to seem a figure of great significance for our understanding of the period.
Dec 1, 2023 · 6 min read. Sir William Jones' Flash of Light in the East. Douglas Tan | National University of Singapore. Painting of Sir William Jones, by James Posselwhite, original available at the National Library of Wales. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
