Charles Otto Blagden

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Charles Otto Blagden (born 1864 ; died 1949 ) was an English orientalist and linguist who specialized in the languages Malay , Mon and Pyu .

Biography and work

Blagden was employed by the Civil Service of the Straits Settlements from 1888 to 1897 and became a Malaysian lecturer at the University of London in 1910 and at the School of Oriental Studies in 1917 . He has been in the works Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula ( "The pagan races of the Malay Peninsula ") by Walter William Skeat (1866-1953) (2 volumes, 1906) adopted the linguistic part with a thoughtful presentation of complex linguistic relations. He also made extensive studies of Burmese written material for Epigraphia Birmanica , which yielded new results and made it possible to trace the history of Burma and the Mon language back further, which led to the discovery of the previously unknown Tibetan Burman language Pyu . He wrote the foreword to Malay magic: being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula (Malay Magic: Introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula) by Walter William Skeat. The Mon inscriptions ( Môn Inscriptions ) in the series Epigraphia Birmanica being lithic and other inscriptions of Burma (Rangoon, 1919-1936) he published himself.

Works

  • 1898. "The medieval chronology of Malacca".
  • 1902. "A Malayan element in some of the languages ​​of Southern Indo-China". In Journal of the Straits Branch, Royal Asian Society no.38.
  • 1906. With Walter William Skeat . Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula . London, Macmillan and Co. Digitized Volume 1 , Volume 2
  • 1906. "Siam and the Malay Peninsula". In Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society .
  • 1909. Notes on Malay history. In Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society .
  • 1910. "Quelques notions sur la phonétique du Talain et son évolution historique". In Journal asiatique .
  • 1912. Notes on Talaing epigraphy.
  • 1914. "The Pyu inscriptions". In Epigraphica Indica vol. 12 no. 16: 127-137.
  • 1917. With Richard Winstedt . A Malay Reader . Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • 1920. Mon Inscriptions . Rangoon: Government Printery and Stationary.
  • 1928. "The inscriptions of the Kalyāṇīsīmā, Pegu". In Epigraphia Birmanica .
  • 1960. English-Malay phrase-book . Singapore; Malays Publishing House.

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ^ Obituary by RO Winstedt
  2. ↑ digitized version
  3. ↑ cf. z. B. Digitized Volume IV, Part 1
  4. ↑ Worldcat.org

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personal data
SURNAME Blagden, Charles Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British orientalist and linguist , with particular knowledge of British Malaya
DATE OF BIRTH 1864
DATE OF DEATH 1949