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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Malan    
First Name(s)  Cesar Jean Salomon    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Rev.    
Birth Year  1812    
Death Year  1894    
Entry  Born April 12, 18 12 : son of Dr. Cesar Henri Abraham Malan : educated at Vandoeuvres : took early to the study of languages : was at St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, 1833-7 : Boden Sanskrit Scholar, 1834 : Pusey and Ellerton Scholar, 1837 : in 1838 became classical lecturer at Bishop's College, Calcutta : ordained, 1838 : Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal : studied Indian languages : left India, 1840 : became member of Balliol College, Oxford, 1843 : was Rector of Broadwindsor, 1845-85 : travelled in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Armenia, 1849- 50, going to Nineveh with Sir A. H. Layard, and in 1872 to the Crimea, Georgia, Armenia : D.D. of Edinburgh, 1880 : gave many of his books to the Indian Institute at Oxford : was a great Oriental scholar, and a voluminous writer on linguistic subjects ; an accomplished artist, and an ardent lover of Natural History : nearly all his publications dealt with the Scriptures and ecclesiastical subjects, e.g. Original Notes on the Book of Proverbs : he knew about 40 languages : he died Nov. 25, 1894.     
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