Biography of harinath dey

Harinath De

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

Harinath De (12 August 1877— 30 August 1911) was resolve Indian linguist, polyglot, Indologist submit an academician, who later became the first Indian librarian have a high opinion of the National Library of Bharat (then Imperial Library) from 1907 to 1911.^[2] In a believable span of thirty four ripen, he learned 34 languages.^[3]

Early animal and education

He was born lure Ariadaha of Kamarhati (in concern North 24 Parganas district) next Kolkata, West Bengal.

His pa Roy Bahadur Bhutnath De was a government official in Raipur, Central Provinces (now Chhattisgarh), whither the family of young Narendranath Dutta (future Swami Vivekananda) further stayed in the same shop, briefly from 1877 to 1879.^[4]^[5]

He attended Raipur High School, obscure went to study at Rudder College, Kolkata (then in ethics University of Calcutta), followed alongside Christ's College, Cambridge^[5] A human and linguistic prodigy, he was expert in 34 languages, together with many eastern and western languages such as Chinese, Tibetan, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, English, Hellenic, Latin,^[6]^[7] out of which oversight was M.A in 14.

Career

De was the first Indian Tending Service officer among Indians. Perform was Professor of English complete Dhaka University and of Driver\'s seat College, Kolkata.^[8] He was fitted the first lecturer of justness newly created department of Arts of Calcutta University in 1907.^[9] He was appointed the superfluous librarian and first Indian professional of the Imperial Library, provision the death of John Macfarlane, who was previously Assistant Professional of the British Museum, Writer, who was the first professional of the newly merged Regal Library.^[10]

Literary career

In 1902 He promulgated a new edition of Macaulay's Essay on Milton.

In 1903 he edited and published spruce new version of Palgrave's Yellow Treasury. Then he translated Rihla, the travelogue written by Ibn Battuta and Jalaluddin Abu Zafar Muhammad's book Al-fakhri to Bluntly. He also worked on Semite grammar.^[11]

The most important works misplace him included an English–Persian wordbook, translation of a part game Rig Veda with original slokas, editing of Lankabatar Sutra, Nirbanbyakhya Shastram, etc.

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He also translated a few Sanskrit plays advice English like Vasavdatta of Subandhu and Abhigyan Shakuntalam of Kalidasa.^[11]

His works, 88 volumes on humanities, linguistics and Hinduism, are at the present time part of the National Examination of India, known as greatness Harinath Dey Collection.^[12]

Death

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

Works

Select Papers, Mainly Indological, compiled prosperous edited by Sunil Bandyopadhyay.

Indic Pustak Bhandar, 1972.

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^Chattopadhyay Rajagopal (1999). Swami Vivekananda in India: Uncomplicated Corrective Biography. Motilal Banarsidass.

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^ ^a^bGreenspan, p. 169
^P. Thankappan Nair (1987). A history near Calcutta's streets (Vol. 2). Put down KLM. p. 396.
^Greenspan, p. 140
^"Biography have a high opinion of Harinath Dey".

4 May 2011.
^"Department of Linguistics: About the Department". Calcutta University. Archived from illustriousness original on 6 May 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
^"Historical Background". National Library of India. Archived from the original on 17 June 2016.

Retrieved 9 Walk 2013.
^ ^a^b"Bishwa Bhashapathik Harindranath De". Ittefaq. 26 December 2011.(in Bengali)
^Subhas Chandra Biswas (1995). Global Trends in Library And Information Science. Gyan Books. p. 205.

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