Date of birth: 15 June 1765
Date of death: 10 March 1837.
Website:

Civil Servant in the East India Company, administrative Officer, judge, Orientalist, Sanskritist, Professor for Hindu law and Sanskrit at the College of Fort William in Calcutta, India, Co-founder and President of the Royal Asiatic Society.

More Authors

Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.

In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among man...

Errol D'Souza

Errol D’Souza studied economics and statistics at the University of Mumbai where he was awarded the Kashinath Trimbak Telang gold medal for obtaining the first rank in his MA degree. He went on to receive his Ph.D. as a University Grants Commission National Research Fellow from Jawaharlal Neh...

Aaron Gustafson

Aaron has nearly 15 years experience on the web and, in that time, has cultivated a love of web standards and an in-depth knowledge of website strategy and architec­ture, interface design, and numerous languages (including XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP). He is Group Manager of the Web Standards...