Robert Caesar Childers

Robert Cesar Childers (pronounced tschillders; * 1838, † 28 July 1876 in London ) is regarded as one of the preeminent expert on the Pali and Buddhism in his time.

Childers was educated at Oxford and went to Ceylon in 1860. During a multi-year stay in Ceylon as a British civil servant, he familiarized himself with the help of a Sinhalese with the Pali. In 1864 he returned for health reasons to England, where he was born in 1872 sub- librarian at the Library of the India Office (Indian Office Library) and later Professor of Pali and Buddhist literature at University College in London. In the Journal of the Asiatic Society, he gave several Pâlitexte with translations and studies of the Sinhalese, the native language of Ceylon, out, he tried to prove, the daughter of Sanskrit. His main work is the award-winning " Dictionary of the Pali language " ( London 1875), which established a new era in the study of Pâliliteratur and of Buddhism. On the issue of a finished manuscript in Pâligrammatik he was prevented by death. Childers died on 28 July 1876 in London.

Swell

  • Brockhaus encyclopedia. 14 A., Vol 4, 1908.
  • Indologist
  • Buddhologist
  • Briton
  • English
  • Born in 1838
  • Died in 1876
  • Man
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