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Wilson</a>)</span></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">British Indologist (1786–1860)</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HoraceWilson.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/HoraceWilson.jpg/220px-HoraceWilson.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/HoraceWilson.jpg/330px-HoraceWilson.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/HoraceWilson.jpg/440px-HoraceWilson.jpg 2x" data-file-width="474" data-file-height="501" /></a><figcaption>Watercolour by <a href="/wiki/James_Atkinson_(Persian_scholar)" title="James Atkinson (Persian scholar)">James Atkinson</a>, 1821</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Horace Hayman Wilson</b> (26 September 1786 – 8 May 1860) was an English <a href="/wiki/Orientalism" title="Orientalism">orientalist</a> who was elected the first <a href="/wiki/Boden_Professor_of_Sanskrit" title="Boden Professor of Sanskrit">Boden Professor of Sanskrit</a> at <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WilsonDNB_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WilsonDNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=H._H._Wilson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He studied medicine at <a href="/wiki/St_Thomas%27s_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="St Thomas's Hospital">St Thomas's Hospital</a>, and went out to <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> in 1808 as assistant-surgeon on the <a href="/wiki/Bengal" title="Bengal">Bengal</a> establishment of the <a href="/wiki/British_East_India_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="British East India Company">British East India Company</a>. His knowledge of <a href="/wiki/Metallurgy" title="Metallurgy">metallurgy</a> caused him to be attached to the <a href="/wiki/India_Government_Mint,_Kolkata" title="India Government Mint, Kolkata">mint</a> at <a href="/wiki/Kolkata" title="Kolkata">Calcutta</a>, where he was for a time associated with <a href="/wiki/John_Leyden" title="John Leyden">John Leyden</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He acted for many years as secretary to the committee of public instruction, and superintended the studies of the <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanskrit College">Sanskrit College</a> in Calcutta. He was one of the staunchest opponents of the proposal that English should be made the sole medium of instruction in native schools, and became for a time the object of bitter attacks.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1832 <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a> selected Wilson to be the first occupant of the newly founded <a href="/wiki/Boden_Professor_of_Sanskrit" title="Boden Professor of Sanskrit">Boden chair of Sanskrit</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he had placed a column length advertisement in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> on 6 March 1832 p. 3, giving a list of his achievements and intended activities, along with testimonials, including one from a rival candidate, as to his suitability for the post. In 1836 he was appointed librarian to the East India Company. He also taught<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at the <a href="/wiki/East_India_Company_College" title="East India Company College">East India Company College</a>. On 10 April 1834 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.<sup id="cite_ref-RecordRSL4_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RecordRSL4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the recommendation of <a href="/wiki/Henry_Thomas_Colebrooke" title="Henry Thomas Colebrooke">Henry Thomas Colebrooke</a>, Wilson was in 1811 appointed secretary to the <a href="/wiki/Asiatic_Society_of_Bengal" class="mw-redirect" title="Asiatic Society of Bengal">Asiatic Society of Bengal</a>. He was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Medical_and_Physical_Society_of_Calcutta" title="Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta">Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta</a> and was an original member of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Asiatic_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Asiatic Society">Royal Asiatic Society</a>, of which he was director from 1837 up to the time of his death.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He married Frances Siddons, a grand-daughter of the famous actress <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Siddons" title="Sarah Siddons">Sarah Siddons</a><sup id="cite_ref-IMSRoll_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMSRoll-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> through her son George. </p><p>Wilson died on 8 May 1860<sup id="cite_ref-RecordRSL4_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RecordRSL4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is buried in <a href="/wiki/Kensal_Green_Cemetery" title="Kensal Green Cemetery">Kensal Green Cemetery</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=H._H._Wilson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wilson became deeply interested in the ancient language and literature of India, and was the first person to translate the <a href="/wiki/Rigveda" title="Rigveda">Rigveda</a> into English. In 1813 he published the <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> text with a free translation in English rhymed verse of <a href="/wiki/Kalidasa" title="Kalidasa">Kalidasa</a>'s lyrical poem, the <i><a href="/wiki/Meghad%C5%ABta" title="Meghadūta">Meghadūta</a></i>, or Cloud-Messenger.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HoraceHaymanWilson.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/HoraceHaymanWilson.jpg/220px-HoraceHaymanWilson.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="269" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/HoraceHaymanWilson.jpg/330px-HoraceHaymanWilson.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/HoraceHaymanWilson.jpg/440px-HoraceHaymanWilson.jpg 2x" data-file-width="654" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>He prepared the first <i>Sanskrit–English Dictionary</i> (1819) from materials compiled by native scholars, supplemented by his own researches. This work was only superseded by the <i>Sanskritwörterbuch</i> (1853–1876) of <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Roth" class="mw-redirect" title="Rudolf Roth">Rudolf Roth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Otto_von_B%C3%B6htlingk" title="Otto von Böhtlingk">Otto von Böhtlingk</a>, who expressed their obligations to Wilson in the preface to their great work.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was interested in <a href="/wiki/Ayurveda" title="Ayurveda">Ayurveda</a> and traditional Indian medical and surgical practices. He compiled the local practices observed for <a href="/wiki/Cholera" title="Cholera">cholera</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leprosy" title="Leprosy">leprosy</a> in his publications in the <a href="/wiki/Medical_and_Physical_Society_of_Calcutta" title="Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta">Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1827 Wilson published <i>Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus</i>, which contained a very full survey of the Indian drama, translations of six complete plays and short accounts of twenty-three others. His <i>Mackenzie Collection</i> (1828) is a descriptive catalogue of the extensive collection of Oriental, especially South Indian, manuscripts and antiquities made by Colonel <a href="/wiki/Colin_Mackenzie" title="Colin Mackenzie">Colin Mackenzie</a>, then deposited partly in the India Office, London (now part of the <a href="/wiki/Oriental_and_India_Office_Collections" class="mw-redirect" title="Oriental and India Office Collections">Oriental and India Office Collections</a> of the <a href="/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library">British Library</a>) and partly at Madras (<a href="/wiki/Chennai" title="Chennai">Chennai</a>). He also wrote a <i>Historical Sketch of the First Burmese War, with Documents, Political and Geographical</i> (1827), a <i>Review of the External Commerce of Bengal from 1813 to 1828</i> (1830), a translation of <i><a href="/wiki/Vishnu_Purana" title="Vishnu Purana">Vishnu Purana</a></i> (1840), and a <i>History of British India from 1805 to 1835</i>, (1844–1848) in continuation of <a href="/wiki/James_Mill" title="James Mill">James Mill</a>'s 1818 <i><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_British_India" title="The History of British India">The History of British India</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:left;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Publications">Publications</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=H._H._Wilson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1813 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.37528"><i>The Mēgha Dūta; or, Cloud messenger</i></a> by <a href="/wiki/K%C4%81lid%C4%81sa" class="mw-redirect" title="Kālidāsa">Kālidāsa</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/b28747860">Revised Second Edition, 1843</a>)</li> <li>1819 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.17218"><i>A Dictionary, Sanscrit and English</i></a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ki9a-T0OuTQC">Revised Second Edition, 1832</a>)</li> <li>1827 <i>Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/selectspecimenso01wils">Volume 1</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/selectspecimenso02wils">Volume 2</a> (Revised Second Edition, 1835 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/selectspecimenso01wils_0">Volume 1</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/selectspecimenso02wils_0">Volume 2</a>)</li> <li>1827 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/documentsillustr00wils"><i>Documents Illustrative of the Burmese War</i></a></li> <li>1828 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mackenziecollec02wilsgoog"><i>Mackenzie Collection: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Oriental Manuscripts</i></a>, co-authored with <a href="/wiki/Colin_Mackenzie" title="Colin Mackenzie">Colin Mackenzie</a></li> <li>1828 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ZEhOAQAAMAAJ"><i>Sketch of the Religious Sects of the Hindus</i></a>, in <i>Asiatic Researches</i>, Volume XVI, Calcutta. (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/sketchofreligiou00wils">Expanded edition, 1846</a>)</li> <li>1840 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.220642"><i>The Vishnu Purána: a system of Hindu mythology and tradition</i></a></li> <li>1841 <i>Travels in the Himalyayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab...</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/travelsinhimala00benggoog">Volume 1</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/travelsinhimala00trebgoog">Volume 2</a></li> <li>1841 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_w3kWAAAAYAAJ"><i>Ariana Antiqua: A descriptive account of the antiquities and coins of Afghanistan</i></a></li> <li>1841 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/introductiontogr00wilsrich"><i>An Introduction to the Grammar of Sanskrit Language for the Use of Early Students</i></a></li> <li>1845–48 <i>The history of British India from 1805–1835</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofbritish07milliala">Volume 1</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofbritish08milliala">Volume 2</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofbritish09mill">Volume 3</a></li> <li>1850–88 <i>Rig-veda Sanhitá : a collection of ancient Hindu hymns</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/rigvedasanhitc01wils">Volume 1</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/rigvedasanhitc02wils">Volume 2</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/rigvedasanhitc03wils">Volume 3</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/rigvedasanhitc04wils">Volume 4</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/rigvedasanhitc05wils">Volume 5</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/rigvedasanhitc06wils">Volume 6</a></li> <li>1852 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/narrativeburmes02wilsgoog"><i>Narrative of the Burmese war, in 1824–25</i></a></li> <li>1855 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/glossaryofjudici00wilsuoft"><i>A glossary of judicial and revenue terms and of useful words occurring in official documents relating to the administration of the government of British India</i></a></li> <li>1860 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/HinduHistoryOfKashmirHHWilson"><i>The Hindu History of Kashmir</i></a></li> <li>1862–71 Posthumous Collected Edition: <i>Works by the Late Horace Hayman Wilson</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksbylatehorac01wils">Volume 1: <i>Religion of the Hindus</i> Vol 1</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksbylatehorac02wils">Volume 2: <i>Religion of the Hindus</i> Vol 2</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksbylatehorac03wils">Volume 3: <i>Essays on Sanskrit Literature</i> Vol 1</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksbylatehorace04wils">Volume 4: <i>Essays on Sanskrit Literature</i> Vol 2</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksbylatehorac05wils">Volume 5: <i>Essays on Sanskrit Literature</i> Vol 3</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksbylatehorace06wils">Volume 6: <i>The Vishnu Purana</i> Vol 1</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksbylatehorac07wils">Volume 7: <i>The Vishnu Purana</i> Vol 2</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksbylatehorac08wils">Volume 8: <i>The Vishnu Purana</i> Vol 3</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksbylatehorace09wils">Volume 9: <i>The Vishnu Purana</i> Vol 4</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksbylatehorace10wils">Volume 10: <i>The Vishnu Purana</i> Vol 5</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksbylatehorac11wils">Volume 11: <i>Theatre of the Hindus</i> Vol 1</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksbylatehorace12wils">Volume 12: <i>Theatre of the Hindus</i> Vol 2</a></li> <li><i>Principles of Hindu and Mohammedan Law</i></li> <li><i>Metaphysics of Puranas</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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(1900). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Wilson, Horace Hayman"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Wilson,_Horace_Hayman">"Wilson, Horace Hayman" </a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Dictionary of National Biography</a></i>. Vol. 62. 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