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See also:OUSELEY, See also:SIR 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 (1769—1842) , See also:British Orientalist, eldest son of See also:Captain See also:Ralph Ouseley, of an old Irish See also:family, was See also:born in See also:Monmouthshire. After a private See also:education he went to See also:Paris, in 1787, to learn See also:French, and there laid the See also:foundation of his See also:interest in See also:Persian literature. In 1788 he became a See also:cornet in the 8th See also:regiment of dragoons. At the end of 1794 he sold his See also:commission and went to See also:Leiden to study Persian. In 1795 he published Persian Miscellanies; in 1797—1799, See also:Oriental Collections; in 1799, See also:Epitome of the See also:Ancient See also:History of See also:Persia; in ,800, The Oriental See also:Geography of Ebn Haukal; and in 18o1, a See also:translation of the Bakhtiyar Nama and Observations on Some Medals and Gems. He received the degree of LL.D. from the university of See also:Dublin in 1797, and in 'Soo he was knighted. When his See also:brother, Sir See also:Gore Ouseley, was sent, in 181o, as See also:ambassador to Persia, Sir William accompanied him as secretary. He returned to See also:England in 1813, and in 1819—1823 published, in three volumes, Travels in Various Countries of the See also:East, especially Persia, in 181o, r81r and 1812. He also published See also:editions of the Travels and Arabian See also:Proverbs of See also:Burckhardt. He contributed a number of important papers to the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature. He died at See also:Boulogne in See also:September 1842.
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