Robert Cesar Childers
Robert Cesar Childers (pronounced Tschillders ; * 1838 in Nice , † July 28, 1876 in London ) is considered to be one of the most outstanding experts on Pali and Buddhism in his time. He was the father of the writer and supporter of the Irish independence movement Robert Erskine Childers and the grandfather of Irish President Erskine Hamilton Childers .
Childers studied at Oxford and went to Ceylon in 1860 . During a stay of several years in Ceylon as an English civil servant, he made himself acquainted with the Pali with the help of a Sinhalese . In 1864 he returned to England for health reasons, where in 1872 he became sub-librarian at the library of the India Office (Indian Office Library) and later professor of Pali and Buddhist literature at University College in London. In the journal of the Asiatic Society, he published several Palitexes with translations as well as studies on Sinhala, the native language of Ceylon, which he tried to prove as the daughter of Sanskrit . His main work is the award-winning Dictionary of the Pali language (London 1875), which established a new era in the study of Pali literature and Buddhism. His death prevented him from editing a manuscript paligram. Childers died in London on July 28, 1876.
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- Brockhaus encyclopedia. 14. A., Vol. 4. 1908.
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| SURNAME | Childers, Robert Cesar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Childers, Robert Cæsar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English orientalist, professor of Pali and Buddhism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nice |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1876 |
| Place of death | London |