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{{Short description|British linguist (1762-1824)}} | |||
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'''Alexander Hamilton''' (1762–1824) was a British linguist who was one of the first Europeans to study the [[Sanskrit]] language.<ref name="K. John pp. 79–83">T. K. John, "Research and Studies by Western Missionaries and Scholars in Sanskrit Language and Literature," in the St. Thomas Christian Encyclopaedia of India, Vol. III, Ollur [Trichur] 2010 Ed. George Menachery, pp. 79–83</ref> He taught the language to most of the earliest European scholars of Indo-European linguistics. He became the first professor of Sanskrit in Europe. | '''Alexander Hamilton''' (1762–1824) was a British linguist who was one of the first Europeans to study the [[Sanskrit]] language.<ref name="K. John pp. 79–83">T. K. John, "Research and Studies by Western Missionaries and Scholars in Sanskrit Language and Literature," in the St. Thomas Christian Encyclopaedia of India, Vol. III, Ollur [Trichur] 2010 Ed. George Menachery, pp. 79–83</ref> He taught the language to most of the earliest European scholars of Indo-European linguistics. He became the first professor of Sanskrit in Europe. | ||