Arthur Anthony Macdonell, FBA (11 May 1854 – 28 December 1930) was a noted Sanskrit scholar.

Biography

Macdonell was born at Muzaffarpur in the Tirhut region of the state of Bihar in British India, the son of Charles Alexander Macdonell, of the Indian Army. He was educated at Göttingen University, then matriculated in 1876 at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, gaining a classical exhibition and three scholarships (for German, Chinese, and the

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for Sanskrit). He graduated with classical honours in 1880 and was appointed

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Teacher of German (language) at Oxford. In 1883 he obtained his PhD from the University of Leipzig, and then became Deputy Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford in 1888, and

Boden Professor of Sanskrit The position of Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford was established in 1832 with money bequeathed to the university by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Boden, a retired soldier in the service of the East India Company. He wished the ...

in 1899 (a post that carried with it a fellowship of

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). Macdonell edited various Sanskrit texts, wrote a grammar, compiled a dictionary, and published a Vedic grammar, a Vedic Reader, and a work on Vedic mythology; he also wrote a history of Sanskrit.

Selected works

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References

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Sanskrit Grammar
by Arthur Anthony Macdonell {{DEFAULTSORT:Macdonnell, Arthur Anthony 1854 births 1930 deaths British Indologists Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford Boden Professors of Sanskrit Chess historians Sanskrit scholars from Uttar Pradesh People from Muzaffarpur Fellows of the British Academy