Ramchandra Vidyabagish ( bn, রামচন্দ্র বিদ্যাবাগীশ) (1786 – 2 March 1845) was an Indian

lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoretica ...

and

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scholar. His ''Bangabhashabhidhan'', the first monolingual

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dictionary, was published in 1817. He taught at the Vedanta College established by

Raja Rammohun Roy Raja Ram Mohan Roy ( bn, রামমোহন রায়; 22 May 1772 – 27 September 1833) was an Indian reformer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a social-religious reform m ...

, and later at

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from 1827-37. Closely associated with the work of Raja Rammohun Roy in Kolkata, he was the first secretary of the Brahmo Sabha established in 1828 and initiated

Debendranath Tagore Debendranath Tagore (15 May 1817 – 19 January 1905) was an Indian Hindu philosopher and religious reformer, active in the Brahmo Samaj (earlier called Bhramho Sabha) ("Society of Brahma", also translated as ''Society of God''). He joined Brahm ...

and 21 other young men into

Brahmo Samaj Brahmo Samaj ( bn, ব্রহ্ম সমাজ, Brahmô Sômaj, ) is the societal component of Brahmoism, which began as a monotheistic reformist movement of the Hindu religion that appeared during the Bengal Renaissance. It was one of t ...

in 1843.

References

* Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Anjali Bose (1988) (ed.) ''Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (Biographical dictionary) (in Bengali), Calcutta: Sahitya Sansad, p. 472. Brahmos Hindu revivalists 1786 births 1845 deaths Bengali Hindus 19th-century Bengalis Bengali educators Bengali-language writers Indian writers 18th-century Indian writers 19th-century Indian writers Educators from West Bengal Indian educators Educationists from India 19th-century Indian educators 18th-century Indian educators Indian male writers 19th-century Indian male writers Sanskrit scholars from Bengal Indian lexicographers {{India-academic-bio-stub