Monier-William
Biography
Birthday – 2nd November 1819
Dead – 11st April 1899
Native Place - Bombay
Parents - Monier Williams and
Marriage - 1848
Education –
King's College School
Balliol College
Oxford (1838-40)
East India Company College (1840-41)
University College, Oxford (1841-44)
Fields - Asian languages
Working Experiences –
Teacher in Asian languages at the East India Company College (1844 – 1858)
Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University, England
Honours
Knighted (1876)
KCIE (1887)
Honorary DCL, Oxford (1875)
LlD Calcutta (1876)
Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford (1880)
Honorary PhD, Göttingen
Vice-President, Royal Asiatic Society (1890)
Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxford (1892)
Publications (selected)
Translation of Shakuntala (1853)
Indian Wisdom, an anthology from Sanskrit literature (1875)
Modern India and Indians
Brahmanism and Hinduism (1883)
Buddhism, in its connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism, and in its contrast with Christianity (1889)
Sanskrit-English Dictionary
A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European languages, Monier Monier-Williams, revised by E. Leumann, C. Cappeller, et al. not dated, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi; apparently a reprint of edition published (1899)
An Elementary Grammar of the Sanscrit Language (1846)
A Practical Grammar of the Sanskrit Language, Arranged with Reference to the Classical Languages of Europe, for the Use of English Students, Oxford: Clarendon, 1857, enlarged and improved Fourth Edition (1887)
Hindu Literature: comprising the Book of Good Counsels, Nala and Damayanti, the Rámáyana and Śakoontalá
Hinduism
Biography
Birthday – 2nd November 1819
Dead – 11st April 1899
Native Place - Bombay
Parents - Monier Williams and
Marriage - 1848
Education –
King's College School
Balliol College
Oxford (1838-40)
East India Company College (1840-41)
University College, Oxford (1841-44)
Fields - Asian languages
Working Experiences –
Teacher in Asian languages at the East India Company College (1844 – 1858)
Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University, England
Honours
Knighted (1876)
KCIE (1887)
Honorary DCL, Oxford (1875)
LlD Calcutta (1876)
Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford (1880)
Honorary PhD, Göttingen
Vice-President, Royal Asiatic Society (1890)
Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxford (1892)
Publications (selected)
Translation of Shakuntala (1853)
Indian Wisdom, an anthology from Sanskrit literature (1875)
Modern India and Indians
Brahmanism and Hinduism (1883)
Buddhism, in its connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism, and in its contrast with Christianity (1889)
Sanskrit-English Dictionary
A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European languages, Monier Monier-Williams, revised by E. Leumann, C. Cappeller, et al. not dated, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi; apparently a reprint of edition published (1899)
An Elementary Grammar of the Sanscrit Language (1846)
A Practical Grammar of the Sanskrit Language, Arranged with Reference to the Classical Languages of Europe, for the Use of English Students, Oxford: Clarendon, 1857, enlarged and improved Fourth Edition (1887)
Hindu Literature: comprising the Book of Good Counsels, Nala and Damayanti, the Rámáyana and Śakoontalá
Hinduism
- · Founder of the University's Indian Institute (1883)