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Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (25 May 1751 – 18 February 1830) (Bengali: হালেদ, romanized: "Haled") was an English Orientalist and philologist. [1] Halhed was born at Westminster, and was educated at Harrow School, where he began a close friendship with Richard Brinsley Sheridan. While at Oxford he undertook oriental studies under the ...
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b. 25 May 1751, s. of William Halhed, dir. Bank of England, of Noke, Herefs. by Frances née Caswall of Oxford. educ. Harrow c.1765; Christ Church, Oxf. 1768. m. c.1781, Helena née Ribaut, da. of Dutch gov. Chinsura, Bengal. suc.fa. 1786.
Writer, E.I. Co. (Bengal) 1772, Persian translator 1774-6; alderman, Calcutta 1774; commissary-gen. 1776; jun. merchant 1780, home 1782, res. 1785; chief asst. revenue and judicial depts. E.I. House 1809-19.
Halhed befriended Richard Brinsley Sheridan* at Harrow school and they collaborated in a translation of Aristaenetus. At Oxford he studied Arabic and proceeded in the Company service to India, where, at the suggestion of Warren Hastings, he translated the Gentoo code. In 1778 he published a Bengali grammar, having under Hastings’s patronage set up ...
NATHANIEL BRASSEY HALHED (1751-1830), English Orientalist and philologist, was born at Westminster on the 25th of May 17 51. He was educated at Harrow, where he began his intimacy with Richard Brinsley Sheridan (see Sheridan Family) continued after he entered Christ Church, Oxford, where, also, he made the acquaintance of Sir William Jones, the famous Orientalist, who induced him to study Arabic.
Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (25 May 1751 – 18 February 1830) (Bengali: হালেদ, romanized: "Haled") was an English Orientalist and philologist. [1] Quick Facts Born, Died ... Halhed became one of Warren Hastings's favorites, and a believer in his approach to Indian affairs. On 5 July 1774 the ...
Halhed left India in 1785, and he hardly took any serious interest in Oriental Studies after that period. But what he did between the years 1772 and 1784 was extremely significant. If the year of the publication of Charles Wilkins’ translation of the Gita into English can be described as the dawn of Oriental Studies, Halhed can be called the morning star of British Orientalism.
Nathaniel Brassey Halhed. Halhed was born at Westminster, and was educated at Harrow School, where he began a close friendship with Richard Brinsley Sheridan. While at Oxford he undertook oriental studies under the influence of William Jones. Accepting a writership in the service of the East India Company, he went out to India, and there, at ...
In 1778 he published a Bengali grammar, to print which he set up, at Hugli, the first Bengali press in India. It is claimed that he was the first writer to call attention to the philological connection of Sanskrit with Persian, Arabic, Greek and Latin. In 1785 he returned to England, and from 1790–1795 was Member of Parliament for Lymington ...
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