Arthur Antony MacDonell (1854-1930) is a renowned English Sanskritologist and Indologist .
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| English Arthur Anthony Macdonell | |
| Date of Birth | 1854 |
| Place of Birth | Muzaffarpur , India |
| Date of death | 1930 |
| Place of death | Oxford , England |
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| Scientific field | Sanskritology , Indology |
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Born in 1854 in Muzaffarpur , North Bihar , India in a British family. Education received first at the University of Gottingen , then was enrolled in the Corpus Christi College, Oxford . Here Arthur MacDonell studied classical philology and received three scholarships to study languages: Sanskrit , German and Chinese . After graduating from college with honors in 1880 , he was appointed German teacher at the Taylor Institute in Oxford. In 1883 he received the title of Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig . In 1899, McDonell became a Sanskrit professor and caretaker of the Indian Institute at Oxford.
The scientific work of Arthur MacDonella lay primarily in the Veda area and everything connected with them. He published various Sanskrit texts, published a grammar of the Vedic language , compiled a dictionary of Sanskrit and a chrestomathy of Vedic texts, wrote works on Vedic mythology and the history of Sanskrit literature .
Selected bibliography
- Katyayana's Sarvanukramani of the Rigveda: with extracts from Shadgurusishya's commentary entitled Vedarthadipika (1886)
- A History of Sanskrit Literature , Kessinger Publishing (published 2004), ISBN 1-417-90619-7
- He added that he was in charge of the Sahonaka . Cambridge, 1904. 2 v., Xxxv, 198, 334 p.
- History of Vedic Grammar , AA Macdonell. Delhi, Sanjay Prakashan, 2004, iv, 448 p., ISBN 81-7453-143-2 .
- History of Vedic Mythology , AA Macdonell. New Delhi, Sanjay Prakashan, 2004, ix, 270 p., ISBN 81-7453-103-3 .
- A practical dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout . London: Oxford University Press , 1929
- Arthur Anthony MacDonell, Oxford University Press , ISBN 0-19-815466-6 .
- India's past: a survey of languages and antiquities (1927)