Wilson, Horace Hayman

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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).

Bibliographical references include: Vishnu-Purāṇa. Tr. by H. H. Wilson. Ed. by Fitzedward Hall. London: Trübner & Co. 1864, 65, 66, 68, 70. Works of the late H. H. Wilson (BCW 9:458).

Some links:

• Quotes: Zirkoff, Boris
• CTD article in Russian: Уилсон, Хорас Хайман
• Other resources: Russian BTS: card data

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