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|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}}. | |||
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|quotes=Zirkoff, Boris | |quotes=Zirkoff, Boris | ||
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Horace Hayman Wilson
1786-1860
Horace Hayman Wilson
(English: Horace Hayman Wilson)
(26 September 1786 − 8 May 1860)
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. (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. (BCW 5:384).
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- Quotes: Zirkoff, Boris
- CTD article in Russian: Уилсон, Хорас Хайман
- Other resources: Russian BTS: card data
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Lifetime: 1786-1860
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