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HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 846 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901) , See also:American Orientalist, was See also:born in See also:Troy, New See also:York, on the 21st of See also:March 1825. He graduated with the degree of See also:civil engineer from the See also:Rensselaer See also:Polytechnic See also:Institute at Troy in 1842, and entered Harvard in the class of 1846; just before his class graduated he See also:left See also:college and went to See also:India in See also:search of a runaway See also:brother. In See also:January r85o he was appointed See also:tutor, and in 1853 See also:professor of See also:Sanskrit and See also:English, in the See also:government college at See also:Benares; and in 1855 was made inspector of public instruction in See also:Ajmere-Merwara and in 1856 in the Central Provinces. He settled in See also:England in 1862 and received the See also:appointment to the See also:chair of Sanskrit, Hindustani and See also:Indian See also:jurisprudence in See also:King's College, See also:London, and to the librarianship of the India See also:Office. He died at Marlesford, See also:Suffolk, on the 1st of See also:February 1901. Hall was the first American to edit a Sanskrit See also:text, the Vishnupurana; his library of a thousand See also:Oriental See also:MSS. he gave to Harvard University. His See also:works include: in Sanskrit, Atmabodha (1852), Sankhyapravachana (1856), Saryasiddhanta (1859), Vasavadattu (1859), Sankhyasara (1862) and Dasarupa (1865); in See also:Hindi, Ballantynes' Hindi See also:Grammar (1868) and a Reader (1870); on English See also:philology, See also:Recent. Exemplifications of False Philology (1872), attacking See also:Richard See also:Grant See also:White, See also:Modern English (1873), ` On English Adjectives in -able, with See also:Special Reference to Reliable " (Am. Jour. Philology, 1877), See also:Doctor Indoctus (188o).

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