Solomon Caesar (César Jean Salomon) Malan
1812–94
Swiss-born orientalist and biblical scholar. BA, Oxford (St Edmund Hall), 1837. Senior classical professor at Bishop’s College, Calcutta, 1838–40. Ordained as an Anglican priest, 1843. Naturalised as a British subject, 1845. Rector of Broadwindsor, Dorset, 1845–85. Author of a history of the Georgian church. Travelled extensively and was conversant with about eighty languages.
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Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
