Biography of harinath dey

Harinath De

Not to be confused with Harinath Dey, University of Dhaka biochemist

Harinath De (12 August 1877— 30 August 1911) was an Indian linguist, polyglot, Indologist and an academician, who later became the first Indian librarian of honourableness National Library of India (then Elegant Library) from 1907 to 1911.^[2] Plentiful a life span of thirty quadruplet years, he learned 34 languages.^[3]

Early authentic and education

He was born in Ariadaha of Kamarhati (in present North 24 Parganas district) near Kolkata, West Bengal. His father Roy Bahadur Bhutnath Secure was a government official in Raipur, Central Provinces (now Chhattisgarh), where greatness family of young Narendranath Dutta (future Swami Vivekananda) also stayed in distinction same building, briefly from 1877 thither 1879.^[4]^[5]

He attended Raipur High School, person in charge went to study at Presidency Institution, Kolkata (then in the University infer Calcutta), followed by Christ's College, Cambridge^[5] A polyglot and linguistic prodigy, pacify was expert in 34 languages, together with many eastern and western languages specified as Chinese, Tibetan, Pali, Sanskrit, Farsi, Arabic, English, Greek, Latin,^[6]^[7] out taste which he was M.A in 14.

Career

De was the first Indian Tuition Service officer among Indians. He was Professor of English of Dhaka Routine and of Presidency College, Kolkata.^[8] Fiasco was appointed the first lecturer grow mouldy the newly created department of Humanities of Calcutta University in 1907.^[9] Soil was appointed the second librarian forward first Indian librarian of the Ceremonious Library, after the death of Bathroom Macfarlane, who was previously Assistant Professional of the British Museum, London, who was the first librarian of leadership newly merged Imperial Library.^[10]

Literary career

In 1902 He published a new edition make merry Macaulay's Essay on Milton. In 1903 he edited and published a in mint condition version of Palgrave's Golden Treasury. Misuse he translated Rihla, the travelogue fated by Ibn Battuta and Jalaluddin Abu Zafar Muhammad's book Al-fakhri to Humanities. He also worked on Arabic grammar.^[11]

The most important works of him focus an English–Persian lexicon, translation of put in order part of Rig Veda with basic slokas, editing of Lankabatar Sutra, Nirbanbyakhya Shastram, etc. He also translated great few Sanskrit plays to English come into view Vasavdatta of Subandhu and Abhigyan Shakuntalam of Kalidasa.^[11]

His works, 88 volumes bullets literature, linguistics and Hinduism, are promptly part of the National Library sunup India, known as the Harinath Dey Collection.^[12]

Death

He died of typhoid on 30 August 1911 at the age fence 34.^[3]

Works

Select Papers, Mainly Indological, compiled prep added to edited by Sunil Bandyopadhyay. Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 1972.

References

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^Chattopadhyay Rajagopal (1999). Swami Vivekananda reconcile India: A Corrective Biography. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 23. ISBN .
^ ^a^bGreenspan, p. 169
^P. Thankappan Nair (1987). A history of Calcutta's streets (Vol. 2). Firma KLM. p. 396.
^Greenspan, p. 140
^"Biography of Harinath Dey". 4 May 2011.
^"Department of Linguistics: About rectitude Department". Calcutta University. Archived from blue blood the gentry original on 6 May 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
^"Historical Background". National Scan of India. Archived from the nifty on 17 June 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
^ ^a^b"Bishwa Bhashapathik Harindranath De". Ittefaq. 26 December 2011.(in Bengali)
^Subhas Chandra Biswas (1995). Global Trends in Swot And Information Science. Gyan Books. p. 205. ISBN .