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See also:MUIR, See also:JOHN (1810-1882) , Scottish Orientalist, was See also:born on the 5th of See also:February 1810 in See also:Glasgow, where his See also:father, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Muir (d. 1821), was a See also:merchant. He was educated at the See also:grammar school of See also:Irvine, the university of Glasgow, and the See also:East See also:India See also:Company's See also:College at Haileybury. He went to India in 1829, and served with distinction in various offices, as assistant secretary to the See also:board of See also:revenue, See also:Allahabad, as See also:collector at Azimgarh, as See also:principal of the See also:Victoria College, See also:Benares, and as See also:civil and session See also:judge at See also:Fatehpur. He encouraged the study of See also:Sanskrit, and furthered schemes for the enlightenment and amelioration of the See also:Hindus. In 1853 he retired and settled in See also:Edinburgh, where he continued his See also:Indian labours. In 1862 he endowed the See also:chair of Sanskrit in the university of Edinburgh, and was the See also:main See also:agent in See also:founding the See also:Shaw fellowship in moral See also:philosophy. He was a D.C.L. of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, LL.D. of Edinburgh and Ph.D. of See also:Bonn, and was one of the first to receive the distinction of C.I.E. He died on the 7th of See also:March 1882.
In 1858 appeared vol. i. of his See also:Original Sanskrit Texts (2nd ed., 1868) ; it was on the origin of See also:caste, an inquiry intended to show that it did not exist in the Vedic See also:age. Vol. ii. (1st ed., 1860; and, 1871) was concerned with the origin and racial See also:affinities of the Hindus, exhibiting all the then available evidences of their connexion, their linguistic, social and See also:political kinship, with the other branches of the Indo-See also:European stock. Vol. iii. (1st ed., 1861; and, 1868) was on the Vedas, a full inquiry as to the ideas of their origin, authority and See also:inspiration held both by the Vedic and later Indian writers. Vol. iv. (1st ed., 1863; and, 1873) was a comparison of the Vedic with the later representations of the principal Indian deities, an See also:exhibition of the See also:process by which three gods hardly known to the Vedic See also:hymns became the deities of the former See also:Hindu Trimurti. Vol. v, (187o) was on the Vedic See also:mythology. Dr Muir was also the author of a See also:volume of Metrical See also:Translations from the Sanskrit, an See also:anonymous See also:work on Inspiration, several See also:works in Sanskrit, and many essays in the See also:Journal of the Royal See also:Asiatic Society and elsewhere.
End of Article: MUIR, JOHN (1810-1882)
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