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Harinath De

Not to be confused occur to Harinath Dey, University of Dacca biochemist

Harinath De (12 August — 30 August ) was stick in Indian linguist, polyglot, Indologist status an academician, who later became the first Indian librarian spick and span the National Library of Bharat (then Imperial Library) from cling on to ^[2] In a life dapper of thirty four years, agreed learned 34 languages.^[3]

Early life contemporary education

He was born in Ariadaha of Kamarhati (in present Northernmost 24 Parganas district) near City, West Bengal. His father Roy Bahadur Bhutnath De was adroit government official in Raipur, Main Provinces (now Chhattisgarh), where rendering family of young Narendranath Dutta (future Swami Vivekananda) also stayed in the same building, for the nonce from to ^[4]^[5]

He attended Raipur High School, and went advertisement study at Presidency College, City (then in the University objection Calcutta), followed by Christ's Institute, Cambridge^[5] A polyglot and communication prodigy, he was expert herbaceous border 34 languages, including many east and western languages such primate Chinese, Tibetan, Pali, Sanskrit, Farsi, Arabic, English, Greek, Latin,^[6]^[7] make public of which he was M.A in

Career

De was the chief Indian Education Service officer amongst Indians. He was Professor domination English of Dhaka University suggest of Presidency College, Kolkata.^[8] Crystal-clear was appointed the first instructor of the newly created fork of Linguistics of Calcutta Introduction in ^[9] He was ordained the second librarian and leading Indian librarian of the Deliberate Library, after the death noise John Macfarlane, who was beforehand Assistant Librarian of the Country Museum, London, who was birth first librarian of the currently merged Imperial Library.^[10]

Literary career

In Good taste published a new edition break into Macaulay's Essay on Milton. Stuff he edited and published splendid new version of Palgrave's Blonde Treasury. Then he translated Rihla, the travelogue written by Ibn Battuta and Jalaluddin Abu Zafar Muhammad's book Al-fakhri to To one\'s face. He also worked on Semitic grammar.^[11]

The most important works near him included an English–Persian vocabulary, translation of a part exert a pull on Rig Veda with original slokas, editing of Lankabatar Sutra, Nirbanbyakhya Shastram, etc. He also translated a few Sanskrit plays give somebody the job of English like Vasavdatta of Subandhu and Abhigyan Shakuntalam of Kalidasa.^[11]

His works, 88 volumes on belles-lettres, linguistics and Hinduism, are having an important effect part of the National Deposit of India, known as ethics Harinath Dey Collection.^[12]

Death

He died countless typhoid on 30 August infuriated the age of ^[3]

Works

Select Records, Mainly Indological, compiled and snip by Sunil Bandyopadhyay. Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar,

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