Cecil Bendall

Name: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
Author: Cecil Bendall

Dictionary of National Biography… (1889)

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“Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900”, published in 1890, is a work by Cecil Bendall. It explores elements such as Goldstuecker, the East India Company and Sanskrit.

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Cecil Bendall, Dictionary of National Biography… (1889)

“ Bengali at this time was, officially at least, an unrecognised vernacular, and Forster rightly insists on the absurdity and inconvenience of continuing to use Persian in courts of law. It was thus due to the efforts of Forster, seconded among Europeans by Carey, Marshman, and the other Serampur missionaries, and among the natives by Rāmamohan Ray and his friends, that Bengali not only has become the official language of the presidency, but now ranks as the most prolific literary language of India. ”

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Cecil Bendall, Dictionary of National Biography… (1900)

“ WILKINS, Sir CHARLES (1749?–1836) , orientalist, born at Frome, Somerset, in 1749 (or in 1750, for contemporary authorities differ as to his age at death) , was the son of Walter Wilkins of that town, and his wife Martha Wray, niece of Robert Bateman Wray [q. v.] the engraver. In 1770 he proceeded to Bengal in the service of the East India Company as a writer, and became superintendent of the company's factories at Maldah. ‘About 1778,’ he writes, his ‘curiosity was excited by the example of his friend Mr. Halhed to commence the study of the Sanskrit’ [see Halhed, Nathaniel Brassey] . ”

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Cecil Bendall, Dictionary of National Biography… (1892)

“ The great work of Johnson's life was his ‘Persian Dictionary.’ On its first publication in 1829 it was described as the third edition of Richardson's dictionary. It contained, however, much original matter, especially in respect of the Arabic element in Persian. In 1852 Johnson published a revised and much extended edition under his own name alone. This work is by far the most important contribution to Persian lexicography in any European language. Compound words are treated with especial completeness. ”

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Cecil Bendall, Dictionary of National Biography… (1889)

“ After short visits to several German universities, Falconer returned to this country, and settled in London as a teacher of oriental languages, and occupied for a short time the professorship of oriental languages in University College, London. ”

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Cecil Bendall, Dictionary of National Biography… (1890)

“ In the same year he went to live in Paris, and remained there for three years. While in Paris he assisted Burnouf in his great work ‘Introduction à l'histoire du Bouddhisme indien.’ About 1844 he paid his first visit to this country, and examined the great oriental collections in the Bodleian Library and at the East India House. ”

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Cecil Bendall, Dictionary of National Biography… (1890)

“ Goldstuecker also impugned in the same volume Professor Weber's ‘Vedic Criticism,’ to which Weber replied in his ‘Indische Studien,’ Bd. 5. Goldstuecker wrote a number of essays and reviews on Indian subjects in the ‘Athenæum,’ the ‘Westminster Review,’ Chambers's ‘Cyclopædia,’ and elsewhere. They are full of learning and eccentricity, missing that true balance of judgment that marks the best scholarship. The chief of them, including some useful contributions to the study of Indian law, were collected in two volumes of ‘Literary Remains’ in 1879. ”

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Cecil Bendall, Dictionary of National Biography… (1890)

“ He appears about this time to have developed advanced political views. A request for permission to act as a privat-docent in the university, addressed to the department of public instruction, was refused, though it was backed by Rosenkranz. ”

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Cecil Bendall, Dictionary of National Biography… (1900)

“ Mag. 1836, ii. 97–8; English Cyclop. and Penny Cyclopædia; Annual Register for 1836; Centenary volume Asiatic Soc. Bengal; letters in Journal Amer. Oriental Society, 1880, vol. x.; prefaces to Sir W. Jones's Sacontala, and to Wilkins's Sanskrita Grammar. ”

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Cecil Bendall, Dictionary of National Biography… (1889)

“ The essay finally appeared in 1810, and from its preface we learn that it was submitted in manuscript to the ‘College Council’ in 1804, at which time ‘none of the elaborate works on Sanskrit by Mr. Colebrooke, Mr. Carey, or Mr. ”

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