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|term to show=Horace Hayman Wilson | |term to show=Horace Hayman Wilson | ||
|description=English physician and orientalist (1786-1860), secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and later Boden professor of Sanskrit at Oxford. His Sanskrit dictionary and translations of the Rigveda and Vishnu Purana were important scholarly works; Blavatsky extensively used the latter. {{ctd-source|BCW|2|549}}. | |description=English physician and orientalist (1786-1860), secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and later Boden professor of Sanskrit at Oxford. His Sanskrit dictionary and translations of the Rigveda and Vishnu Purana were important scholarly works; Blavatsky extensively used the latter. {{ctd-source|BCW|2|549}}. | ||
Compiled a Sanskrit-English dictionary (Calcutta, 1819; enlarged edition, 1832) and translated the ''Rigveda''. His essays on Hindu religion were collected by Reinhold Rost and published in two volumes in 1862. {{ctd-source|BCW|5|384}}. | |||
|ctd rus=Уилсон, Хорас Хайман | |ctd rus=Уилсон, Хорас Хайман | ||
|quotes=Zirkoff, Boris | |quotes=Zirkoff, Boris | ||