Sir William Jones

28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794

A British philologist, poet and judge. A prodigious linguist, he made his name with A Grammar of the Persian Language (1771) and translations of Persian and Arabic poetry, then went to Calcutta in 1783 as a judge of the Supreme Court. There he founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal and proposed, in a lecture of 1786, that Sanskrit, Greek and Latin descend from a common source.

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1799

The Works of Sir William Jones

The Anniversary Discourses Jones delivered to the Asiatick Society of Bengal, and his essays from Asiatick Researches: the contents of the first volume of his Works (1799).

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1810

The Poetical Works Of William Jones

Published in London: 1810.

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