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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.
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.
William Jones was a Welsh mathematician who corresponded with many of the important English mathematicians of his day.
Apr 27, 2023 · A quarter-century has passed since the last round of scholarly reassessments of Sir William Jones (1746–94), known in his day as the leading European ‘orientalist’ and to posterity as the founder of modern linguistics.
Apr 9, 2023 · The legacy of Sir William Jones is one of the more unexplored territories of Jones scholarship, and in this essay I examine some of the ways Jones and his work were treated in Britain after his death.
William Jones (September 28, 1746 – April 27, 1794) was an English philologist and student of ancient India. He is particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages.
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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.
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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.
