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Henry Thomas Colebrooke (
June 15,
1765 -
March 18,
1837) was an
English orientalist.
Henry Thomas Colebrooke, third son of
Sir George Colebrooke, a Second
Baronet, was born in
London. He was educated at home; and when only fifteen he'd made considerable attainments in
classics and
mathematics. From the age of twelve to sixteen he resided in France.
In 1782 was appointed to a
writership in
India. About a year after his arrival there he was placed in the board of accounts in
Calcutta; and three years later he was removed to a situation in the revenue department at
Tirhut. In
1789 he was removed to
Purneah, where he investigated the resources of that part of the country, and published his
Remarks on the Husbandry and Commerce of Bengal, privately printed in 1795, in which he advocated free trade between
Great Britain and India.
After eleven years' residence in India, Colebrooke began the study of the
Sanskrit language; and to him was confided the
translation of the great
Digest of Hindu Laws, a monumental study of
Hindu law which had been left unfinished by
Sir William Jones. He translated the two treatises, the
Mitacshara of
Vijnaneshwara and the
Dayabhaga of
Jimutavahana, under the title
Law of Inheritance. He was sent to
Nagpur in 1799 on a special mission, and on his return was made a judge of the new court of appeal, over which he afterwards presided.
In
1805, Lord Wellesley appointed him professor of
Hindu law and Sanskrit at the college of
Fort William. During his residence at Calcutta he wrote his
Sanskrit Grammar (1805), some papers on the religious ceremonies of the Hindus, and his
Essay on the Vedas (
1805), for a long time the standard work in English on the subject. He became member of council in
1807 and returned to England seven years later.
He was a director of the
Royal Asiatic Society, and many of the most valuable papers in the society's
Transactions were communicated by him.
A posthumous essay on his father's life was published by Sir T.E. Colebrooke in
1873 as part of a reprinting of
Miscellaneous Essays.
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