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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  Rehatsek    
First Name(s)  Edward    
Birth Year  1819    
Death Year  1891    
Entry  Born in Hungary, July 3, 1819 : educated at Buda Pesth : toured in Europe and America : went out to Bombay in 1847 and stayed there : was Professor of Latin and Mathematics at Wilson's College : examined, in Persian and Arabic, for 12 years, for the University, of which he was a Fellow : retired from his Professorship in 1871 : translated the Rauzat-ussafa for the Oriental Translation Fund, and other works : contributed a number of articles to the Calcutta Review and Indian Antiquary, and papers to the Bombay Asiatic Society : distinguished as a linguist, but lived, as a hermit, in extraordinary fashion, in great squalor and uncleanliness, buying the simplest food for himself in the bazar, and keeping aloof from all but native society : accumulated some money : wrote a Historical Sketch of Portuguese India, Life of Jesus according to the Muhammadans, The Relations of Islam to Christianity, and Christianity to Civilization, Bombay 115 years ago, and other valuable works : translated Mirkhund's History of the World from Persian into English : wrote for the Anglovernacular journal Native Opinion : knew 12 languages : died Dec. 11, 1891 : the first European cremated in Bombay.     
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