James Prinsep
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James Prinsep was an English scholar, orientalist and antiquary. He was the founding editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and is best remembered for deciphering the Kharosthi and Bra
James Prinsep in medal cast c. 1840 from the National Portrait Gallery
Young James drawn by his sister Emily
A Preacher Expounding The Poorans. In The Temple of Unn Poorna, Benares. Lithograph by Prinsep (1835)
Lithograph of Kupuldhara Tulao, Benares by Prinsep (1834)
Christian Lassen
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Christian Lassen was a Norwegian-born, German orientalist and Indologist. He was a professor of Old Indian language and literature at the University of Bonn.
Christian Lassen drawing by Adolf Hohneck, 1859
Old Persian cuneiform alphabet according to Lassen in 1836
Lassen used the bilingual Greek-Brahmi coinage of Indo-Greek kings Agathocles and Pantaleon to correctly decipher the Brahmi script.
Announcement by James Prinsep of the secure decipherement of the first Brahmi letters by Lassen in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, in 1836.