William Jones
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William Jones was an 18th-century scholar and philologist from Wales and England who became famous for his study of ancient India and its languages. His work helped establish the academic field of comparative linguistics and influenced how Europeans understood Sanskrit and Indian civilization.
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Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was an English philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages. He was also the founder of the Asiatic Society. Jones was born in London at Beaufort Buildings, Westminster; his father (also named William Jones) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for devising the use of the symbol pi. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/William+Jone
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Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a Welsh philologist, scholar and judge. Born in Westminster, London to Welsh mathematician William Jones, he moved to the Bengal Presidency where Jones served as a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William and also became a scholar of ancient Indian history. He is known for being one of the earliest scholars to assert the kinship of the Indo-European languages, albeit not the first. Jones also founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta in 1784.
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