Monier Williams (1819–1887)
Monier Monier-Williams (1887–1899)
1819–99
Orientalist. BA, Oxford (University College), 1844. Professor of Sanskrit, Persian, and Hindustani at Haileybury College, 1844–58. Boden professor of Sanskrit, Oxford University, 1860. Assumed the additional surname of Monier in 1887. Knighted, 1886.
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ODNB
Bibliography
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.
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