Sir William Jones
William Jones (philologist) - Wikipedia
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 ...
Sir William Jones | Indo-European linguist, philologist ... - Britannica
Sir William Jones was a British Orientalist and jurist who did much to encourage interest in Oriental studies in the West.
WILLIAM JONES - University of Kent
Sir William Jones (1746-1794) was a distinguished scholar of Oriental languages and poet. He was born in London and at a young age learned Greek, Latin, ...
Sir William Jones (1746-1794) - Royal Asiatic Society
Besides serving on the bench William Jones set up the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784, becoming its President until his death. He also studied Sanskrit and ...
Sir William Jones Manuscripts - Archival Collections - NYU
The Sir William Jones Manuscripts consist of various types of documents related to his lingustic studies, many in their original language with translations or ...
Sir William Jones, A Welsh Linguist | Peoples Collection Wales
William Jones was born in London, 1749. He was the son of William Jones, born in Anglesey in the parish of Llanfihangel-tre'r-beirdd, 1680.
“SIR WILLIAM JONES (1746-1794)” in “Portraits of Linguists
He showed his phenomenal gift for languages as a schoolboy at Harrow. He easily outstripped his fellow-students, and apparently even his teachers, in Latin and ...
William Jones (law officer) - Wikipedia
Sir William Jones (1631 – 2 May 1682) was an English lawyer and politician. Sir. William Jones. Born, 1631 (1631). Stowey, Somerset, England.
Memorial to Sir William Jones, University College Chapel
A complicated legacy. In this frieze from University College's Chapel, the philologist and Calcutta judge Sir William Jones is portrayed sitting under a banana ...
Sir William Jones' Flash of Light in the East - EPOCH Magazine
Sir William Jones, a polymath in every sense, who would establish the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal and leave a defining legacy.
JONES, Sir William (1630-82), of Southampton Square, Bloomsbury ...
Jones's family had held the small estate of Stowey Court since Elizabethan times. His father was a parliamentary supporter during the Civil War.
Sir William Jones Manuscripts: NYU Special Collections Finding Aids
The Sir William Jones Manuscripts consist of various types of documents related to his lingustic studies, many in their original language with translations or ...
Sir William Jones | Encyclopedia.com
William Jones >Sir William Jones [1] (1746–1794) was an English philologist, Orientalist, >and jurist. While serving as a judge of the high court at ...
The bicentenary of the birth of Sir William Jones, F. R. S. , founder of ...
Sir William Jones, who was already known as a distinguished scholar and linguist, arrived in Calcutta in September 1783, to take up his appointment as a Puisne ...
New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones
Sir William Jones (1746–94), known in his day as the leading European 'orientalist' and to posterity as the founder of modern linguistics.
After Sir William Jones: British Linguistic Scholarship and European ...
In 1786 Sir William Jones delivered his “Third Discourse,” in which the philologer passage contained the succinct formulation of what later became known as the ...
Words in English: Sir William Jones Quote - Rice University
Sir William Jones was one of the greatest polymaths in history. At the time of his early death, in 1794, he knew 13 languages thoroughly and another 28 ...
Sir William Jones - Person - National Portrait Gallery
Sir William Jones (1746-1794), Orientalist and jurist. Sitter in 5 portraits. Sir William Jones, by Joseph Wilson Lowry, published by Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794
Abstract. Sir William Jones (1746–94), poet, philologist, polymath, polyglot, and acknowledged legislator was the foremost Orientalist of his generation an.
Sir William Jones, 1746-94: A Commemoration - Google Books
This volume publishes the results of the "Jones Day" conference, a meeting of scholars at his alma mater (University College, Oxford) on the bicentennial of ...