Biography

Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890-1977), Bengali Indian linguist, was born on 26 November 1890 at Shibpur in Howrah. He did his Major (Honours) in English literature from Presidency College, Kolkata, and in 1913, he completed his M.A. in English literature. The same year, he was appointed lecturer in English at Vidyasagar College. In 1914, he became assistant professor of English in the Post-Graduate Department of the University of Calcutta, which he held till 1919. He went abroad to study at the University of London where he studied Phonology, Indo-European Linguistics, Prakrit, Persian, Old Irish, Gothic and other languages. He then went to Paris and did research at the Sorbonne in Indo-Aryan, Slav and Indo-European Linguistics, Greek and Latin. His teacher was internationally acclaimed linguist, Jules Bloch. After returning to India in 1922, he joined the University of Calcutta as the Khaira Professor of Indian Linguistics and Phonetics. After retirement in 1952, he was made Professor Emeritus and later in 1965, the National Research Professor of India for Humanities.

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