Sir William Jones (philologist)

GPTKB entity

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gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater	gptkb:University_College,_Oxford
gptkbp:appointedBy	judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William, Calcutta
gptkbp:birthDate	1746-09-28
gptkbp:birthPlace	gptkb:London
gptkbp:deathDate	1794-04-27
gptkbp:deathPlace	gptkb:Calcutta
gptkbp:education	gptkb:University_of_Oxford
gptkbp:fieldOfWork	gptkb:law gptkb:poetry translator comparative linguistics Indology
gptkbp:honorificPrefix	Sir
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Sir William Jones (philologist)
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:Indo-European_studies comparative linguistics
gptkbp:knighted	1783
gptkbp:knownFor	proposing the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages founding member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
gptkbp:languageStudied	gptkb:Arabic gptkb:Chinese gptkb:French gptkb:German gptkb:Greek gptkb:Hebrew gptkb:Italian gptkb:Latin gptkb:Persian gptkb:Russian gptkb:Sanskrit gptkb:Spanish gptkb:Welsh English Gothic Irish Portuguese Turkish Runic
gptkbp:memberOf	gptkb:Asiatic_Society gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkbp:nationality	British
gptkbp:notableWork	gptkb:A_Grammar_of_the_Persian_Language translation of Kalidasa's Shakuntala
gptkbp:occupation	gptkb:lawyer gptkb:linguist gptkb:poet orientalist
gptkbp:spouse	gptkb:Anna_Maria_Shipley
gptkbp:title	Sir
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Ramsbury,_Wiltshire,_England
gptkbp:bfsLayer	8