Sir William Jones FRS FRAS FRSE (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a British philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India. He is particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which later came to be known as the Indo-European languages.
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William Jones 28 September 1746 Westminster, London England
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Died |
27 April 1794 (aged 47) Calcutta, India
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Zodiac | Libra |
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