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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|British Sanskrit scholar (1854–1930)}}<br />
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[[File:Arthur Anthony Macdonell.png|thumb|Macdonell in 1901]]<br />
'''Arthur Anthony Macdonell''', [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] (11 May 1854&nbsp;– 28 December 1930)<ref>{{cite journal|last=Clark|first=Walter E.|author-link=Walter Eugene Clark|title=Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1854–1930)|journal=Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences|date=March 1936|volume=70|issue=10|pages=554–555|jstor=20023183}}</ref> was an Indian-born British linguist and [[Sanskrit]] scholar.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Macdonell was born at [[Muzaffarpur]] in the [[Tirhut (region)|Tirhut]] region of the state of [[Bihar]] in [[British India]],<ref>{{cite journal|last=Clark|first=Walter E.|author-link=Walter Eugene Clark|title=Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1854–1930)|journal=Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences|date=March 1936|volume=70|issue=10|pages=554–555|jstor=20023183}}</ref> the son of Charles Alexander Macdonell, of the Indian Army. He was educated at [[Georg August University of Göttingen|Göttingen University]], then matriculated in 1876 at [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]], gaining a classical exhibition and three scholarships (for German, Chinese, and the [[Boden Scholarship]] for Sanskrit). He graduated with classical honours in 1880 and was appointed [[Taylorian]] Teacher of German (language) at Oxford. In 1883 he obtained his PhD from the [[University of Leipzig]], and then became Deputy Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford in 1888, and [[Boden Professor of Sanskrit]] in 1899 (a post that carried with it a [[Oxbridge Fellow|fellowship]] of [[Balliol College, Oxford]]).<ref>{{cite web|title=Macdonell, Arthur Anthony|work=Who's Who|year=1907|volume=59|page=1117|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1117|author1=Addison, Henry Robert|author2=Oakes, Charles Henry|author3=Lawson, William John|author4=Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton}}</ref><br />
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Macdonell edited various Sanskrit texts, wrote a [[Sanskrit grammar|grammar]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Sanskrit Grammar|author=Macdonell, Arthur Anthony|url=http://macdonell.vedicsociety.org.in}}</ref> compiled a dictionary, and published a Vedic grammar, a Vedic Reader, and a work on [[Vedic mythology]]; he also wrote a history of Sanskrit.<br />
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== Selected works ==<br />
* {{cite book|display-authors=0 |last=MacDonell |first=Arthur Anthony |author-link=Arthur Anthony Macdonell |title=A Sanskrit-English Dictionary |date=1893 |location=London |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/afr4858.0001.001.umich.edu |oclc=457790041}}<br />
* {{cite book|display-authors=0 |last=MacDonell |first=Arthur Anthony |author-link=Arthur Anthony Macdonell |title=Vedic Mythology |date=1897 |location=Strassburg |publisher=Karl J. Trübner |url=https://archive.org/details/vedicmythology00macduoft |oclc=866585190}}<br />
* {{cite book|display-authors=0 |last=MacDonell |first=Arthur Anthony |author-link=Arthur Anthony Macdonell |title=A History of Sanskrit Literature |date=1900 |location=New York |publisher=D. Appleton and Company |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofsanskri00macduoft |oclc=}}<br />
* {{cite book|display-authors=0 |last=MacDonell |first=Arthur Anthony |author-link=Arthur Anthony Macdonell |title=A Sanskrit Grammar for Beginners |date=1901 |edition=Second |orig-year=1886 |location=London |publisher=Longmans, Green and Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/sanskritgrammarf0000macd_a5o8 |oclc=1256737328}}<br />
* {{cite book|display-authors=0 |last=MacDonell |first=Arthur Anthony |author-link=Arthur Anthony Macdonell |title=Bṛhad-devatā, attributed to Saunaka: a summary of the deities and myths of the Rig-veda; Part I Introduction and text and Appendices |series= Harvard Oriental Series |volume=V |date=1904 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Harvard University |url=https://archive.org/details/brhaddevataattri01saun |oclc=466061914}}<br />
* {{cite book|display-authors=0 |last=MacDonell |first=Arthur Anthony |author-link=Arthur Anthony Macdonell |title=Bṛhad-devatā, attributed to Saunaka: a summary of the deities and myths of the Rig-veda; Part II Translation and Notes |series= Harvard Oriental Series |volume=VI |date=1904 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Harvard University |url=https://archive.org/details/brhaddevataattri02saun |oclc=466061914}}<br />
* {{cite book|display-authors=0 |last=MacDonell |first=Arthur Anthony |author-link=Arthur Anthony Macdonell |title=Vedic Grammar |date=1910 |location=Strassburg |publisher=Karl J. Trübner |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924023050325 |oclc=1141304420}}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=MacDonell |first1=Arthur Anthony |author1-link=Arthur Anthony Macdonell |last2=Keith |first2=Arthur Barriedale |author2-link=Arthur Berriedale Keith |title=Vedic Index of Names and Subjects |volume=1 |date=1912 |location=London |publisher=John Murray |url=https://archive.org/details/vedicindexofname01macduoft |oclc=877534019}}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=MacDonell |first1=Arthur Anthony |author1-link=Arthur Anthony Macdonell |last2=Keith |first2=Arthur Barriedale |author2-link=Arthur Berriedale Keith |title=Vedic Index of Names and Subjects |volume=2 |date=1912 |location=London |publisher=John Murray |url=https://archive.org/details/vedicindexofname02macduoft |oclc=877534019}}<br />
* {{cite book|display-authors=0 |last=MacDonell |first=Arthur Anthony |author-link=Arthur Anthony Macdonell |title=A Vedic Reader for Students |date=1917 |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |url=https://archive.org/details/vedicreaderforst00macd |oclc=954916863}}<br />
* {{cite book|display-authors=0 |last=MacDonell |first=Arthur Anthony |author-link=Arthur Anthony Macdonell |title=Hymns from the Rigveda |date=1922 |location=London |publisher=Oxford University Press |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924023014750 |oclc=827188}}<br />
* {{cite book|display-authors=0 |last=MacDonell |first=Arthur Anthony |author-link=Arthur Anthony Macdonell |title=Lectures On Comparative Religion |date=1925 |location=Calcutta |publisher=University of Calcutta |url=https://archive.org/details/LecturesOnComparativeReligionStephanosNirmalenduLectures |oclc=557945422}}<br />
* {{cite book|display-authors=0 |last=MacDonell |first=Arthur Anthony |author-link=Arthur Anthony Macdonell |title=India's past: A Survey of her Literatures, Religions, Languages, and Antiquities |date=1927 |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |url=https://archive.org/details/indiaspastsurvey00macd |oclc=39784406}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* {{Gutenberg author | id=41239| name=Arthur A. MacDonell}}<br />
* {{Internet Archive author |name=Arthur A. MacDonell}}<br />
* [http://macdonell.vedicsociety.org.in/ Sanskrit Grammar], by Arthur Anthony Macdonell<br />
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