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CHILDERS, ROBERT CAESAR (1838-1876)

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 138 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHA-CHR
CHILDERS, ROBERT CAESAR (1838-1876) ,
English
  Oriental scholar, son of the Rev. Charles
Childers
 ,
English
  chaplain at Nice, was born in 1838. In 186o he received an appointment in the civil service of
Ceylon
 , which he retained until 1864, when he was compelled to return to England owing to ill-
health
 . He had studied
Pali
  during his residence in
Ceylon
 , under Yatrramulle UnnSnse, a learned Buddhist for whom he cherished a
life
 -
long
  respect, and he had gained an insight into the Sinhalese character and ways of thought. In 1869 he published the first
Pali
  text ever printed in England, and began to prepare a Pali dictionary, the first volume of which was published in 1872, and the second and concluding volume in 1875. In the following year it was awarded the Volney prize by the Institute of France, as being the most important philological
work
  of the year. He was a frequent contributor to the
Journal
  of the Royal Asiatic Society, in which he published the Maha-parinibbana Sutta, the Pali text giving the account of the last days of Buddha's
life
 . In 1872 he was appointed sub-librarian at the India Office, and in the following year he became the first professor of Pali and Buddhist literature at University College, London. He died in London on the 25th of July 1876.


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