Boden Professor of Sanskrit
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The position of Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford was established in 1832 with money bequeathed to the university by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Boden, a retired soldier in the ser
Monier Williams, the second Boden Professor of Sanskrit, photographed by Lewis Carroll
Horace Hayman Wilson (1786-1860), first Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University
Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900), photographed by Lewis Carroll
H. H. Wilson
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Horace Hayman Wilson was an English orientalist who was elected the first Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University.
Boden Professor of Sanskrit
…also used to fund scholarships in Sanskrit at Oxford. The first two professors were elected by Oxford graduates, as the university's statutes provided: Horace Hayman Wilson won by a narrow majority in 1832, and the 1860 election was hotly contested, as the rivals each claimed to be best at fulfilling Boden's intentions and…
Watercolour by James Atkinson, 1821