William Jones

Sir William Jones (1746–1794) was a British philologist, Orientalist, and jurist who served as a judge in Calcutta and founded the Asiatic Society in 1784. He is renowned for asserting the kinship of Indo-European languages, proposing that many languages sprang from a common source, which significantly advanced linguistic research and European interest in Indian culture[1][3][7].

London, United Kingdom Sep 28, 1746 Wikipedia
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