https://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?title=Monier_Monier-Williams&feed=atom&action=historyMonier Monier-Williams - Revision history2024-03-29T06:33:44ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.4https://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?title=Monier_Monier-Williams&diff=34623&oldid=prevJanet Kerschner at 15:48, 6 October 20172017-10-06T15:48:54Z<p></p>
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</table>Janet Kerschnerhttps://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?title=Monier_Monier-Williams&diff=33212&oldid=prevJanet Kerschner at 13:47, 13 July 20172017-07-13T13:47:46Z<p></p>
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Sir '''Monier Monier-Williams''', KCIE ([[November 12]], 1819 – [[April 11]], 1899) was the second Boden Professor of [[Sanskrit]] at Oxford University, England. He studied, documented and taught Asian languages, especially Sanskrit, Persian and Hindustani.<br />
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Prof. Monier Williams was elected for the Boden Chair of Sanskrit during the 1860 election campaign, in which he stood against [[Max Müller]]. Both candidates had to emphasise their support for [[Christianity|Christian]] evangelisation in India, since that was the basis on which the Professorship had been funded by its founder. Monier Williams' dedication to Christianisation was not doubted, unlike Müller's. After his appointment to the professorship Williams declared from the outset that the conversion of India to the Christian religion should be one of the aims of orientalist scholarship. In his book ''Hinduism'', published by SPCK in 1877, he predicted the demise of the Hindu religion and called for Christian evangelism to ward off the spread of [[Islam]]. According to Saurabh Dube this work is "widely credited to have introduced the term [[Hinduism]] into general English usage." Monier Williams compiled a Sanskrit-English dictionary based on the earlier Petersburg Sanskrit Dictionary which was published in 1872.</div>Pablo Sender