Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Arthur Anthony Macdonell ( born May 11, 1854 in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, † December 28, 1930 ) was a British Sanskritist.

Macdonell was born in India and educated at the University of Göttingen, then matriculated in 1876 at Corpus Christi College, won a classical scholarship ( Exhibition ) and three Scholarships ( for German, Sanskrit, and Chinese). He graduated with classical Awards in 1880 and became the Taylorian Teacher of German at Oxford appointed. In 1883 he received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig and in 1888 Deputy Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford and 1899 ground professor of Sanskrit.

Macdonell issued various Sanskrit texts, wrote a grammar, wrote a dictionary, published a work on Vedic mythology and wrote a history of Sanskrit. He also translated hymns from the Rig Veda. His " Vedic Reader for Students" until very recently reissued. He is considered one of the best connoisseurs of the Vedic language

His book A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis Throughout ( Practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis), since it is consistently transliterated, also used by comparative philologists, be that not a single syllable characters of Devanagari know font. There are also given information on the temporal arrangement of words and the frequency or rarity of their occurrence.

Works (selection)

• A Sanskrit - English Dictionary. London: Longmans, 1893
• A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout. ( Reprinted lithographically. ) (London ) Oxford University Press ( 1971) / New Delhi, India Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.. 2003
• The Brhad - Devata Attributed to Saunaka: A Summary of the Deities and Myths of the Rgveda - Critically edited in the original Sanskrit with an introduction and seven appendices and translated into English with critical and illustrative notes, Cambridge, 1904, 2 v.. xxxv, 198, 334 p.
• A Sanskrit Grammar for Students, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-815466-6.
• Hymns from the Rig Veda. The Heritage of India Series. Kolkata.
• India's past: a survey of her literatures, religions, languages ​​and antiquities. Reprint [ of the ed ] Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927 - New Delhi:. Asian Educational Services, 1994
• A Vedic Reader for Students. 15 Impression Madras, among other things: Oxford University Press, 1988 / Delhi Motilal Banarsidass 2002