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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Rost    
First Name(s)  Reinhold    
Birth Year  1822    
Death Year  1896    
Entry  Born Feb. 2, 1822, at Eisenberg in Saxe- Altenburg : son of Charles Rost : educated at Jena University, Ph.D : came to England, 1847, and, 1851-96, was Oriental Lecturer at St. Augustine's Missionary College, Canterbury : became Secretary to the Royal Asiatic Society, 1863, and Librarian at the India Office, 1869 : retired 1839 : LL.D., Edinburgh, 1877 : C.I.E., 1888 : knew 20 to 30 Oriental languages, including Sanskrit, Pali, Tamil, Telugu, Burmese, Malay, Malagasy, Swahili, besides Arabic, Urdu, and dialects of Africa, China, etc., some completely, some sufficiently to teach : he edited H. H. Wilson's Essays on Sanskrit Literature and the Religion of the Hindus : Brian Hodgson's Essays on Indian Subjects : Trubner's Oriental Record : and published papers on Indo-China : among his works were articles in the Encyclopcedia Britannica, and the Alhentzum, on Oriental philology : a Treatise on the Indian Sources of the Ancient Burmese Laws, etc. etc. : one of the greaetst linguists of the age : honoured by learned Societies and decorated by foreign countries : died Feb. 7, 1896.     
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