Cowell, Edward Byles, 1826-1903 (orientalist)
Dates
- Existence: 1826 - 1903
Biography
Edward Byles Cowell (1826-1903), scholar and man of letters, was born at Ipswich on 23 January 1826. He studied Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic, before training in his father's business as a merchant and maltster from 1842. He entered Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1850 (B.A., 1854), and catalogued manuscripts for the Bodleian Library. Cowell was Professor of English History at Presidency College, Calcutta, 1856-1864, and became Principal of the Sanskrit College in Calcutta in 1858. He returned to England in 1864, and became the first Professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University, 1867-1903. He founded the Cambridge Philological Society in 1868, and became a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1874. Cowell died at Cambridge on 9 February 1903.
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
Albrecht Friedrich Weber: Correspondence to E.B. Cowell, 1866-1868
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Bernard Barton: Letters and Related Papers
Letters from Barton, mainly to Elizabeth Cowell, daughter of the Revd John Charlesworth, and wife of the scholar Edward Byles Cowell. There is an accompanying newspaper obituary of Barton.
Charles J. Pickering: Correspondence with E. Cowell, 1890-1891
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Charles Rockwell Lanman: Letter to E.B. Cowell, 1892
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Copy of letter from E.B. Cowell to Charles Edward Searle, 23 Jan. 1889
Correspondence and translation from Welsh, 1873-1887
Miscellaneous papers, including passports, reports, certificates, University information, correspondence, translations from Welsh and a copy of 'Bird Parliament' by Edward Fitzgerald
E.B. Cowell: 'Mr. Rouse's Translation of the Jataka, Vols. II & IV', draft, 3 Nov. 1902
Edward Byers Cowell: Correspondence
Edward Byles Cowell: Brennus Stories
Essays upon various books admired and read by EBC, with general reflections upon the place of libraries and books in human life; divided into twelve sections with a conclusion. One or two verses, a preface and a dedication in verse (to the writer's wife) precede the opening section. At the foot of p. 162 is the date 15 July 1847.
Edward Byles Cowell: Letter to Henry Bradshaw, 1869
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
Includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, articles and other miscellaneous papers.
Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
Ethical and theological extracts and notes, lecture notes on 'mental philosophy,' welsh poetry and Michaelangelo's sonnets, both translated into English.
Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
Miscellaneous papers, including passports, reports, certificates, University information, correspondence, translations from Welsh and a copy of 'Bird Parliament' by Edward Fitzgerald
Edward FitzGerald: Bird-Parliament and letters
Manuscript of Fitzgerald's translation of a Sufi poem and letters to Elizabeth and Edward Cowell.
Edward FitzGerald: letters to the Cowell Family and others
Edward Heron Allen: Letter to E.B. Cowell, 1898
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Ernst Windisch: Letter to E.B. Cowell, 1872
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Ethical extracts, 1855-1856
A series of ethical and theological extracts and notes compiled by EBC. Fos 51-47r are written from the opposite end of the book. On fo. 1v: 'Edwd B. Cowell, Oxford'. Fos 28-46 and 52 are blank.
From E.B. Cowell, Cambridge, 21 July 1894
From E.B. Cowell, Cambridge, 25 Oct. 1897
H. Dharmapala: Letter to Edward Cowell, 1894
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Henry Cobbe Sutherland: Letter to E.B. Cowell, 1859
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
J. M. Wilson lecture notes, 1854
A series of notes taken by EBC of lectures given by J.M. Wilson on Mental Philosophy, 1854, 32 folios.
Joseph Hélidore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy: Letter to E.B. Cowell, 1859
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Letter from E.B. Cowell to J. Peile, 27 Dec. 1895
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Includes correspondence, verses, notes and miscellaneous papers.
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