See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

ALEXANDER CSOMA DE KOROS (c. 1790-1842)  , or, as the name is written in Hungarian, KOROSI CSOMA See also:

• SANDOR [ALEXANDER] KISFALUDY (1772-1844)

SANDOR, Hungarian traveller and philologist, See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born about 1790 at Koros in Transylvania, belonged to a See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble See also:

• FAMILY

family which had sunk into poverty . He was educated at Nagy-Enyed and at See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen; and, in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to carry out the See also:

• DREAM (from a root dreug, connected with Germ. trugen, to deceive)

dream of his youth and discover the origin of his countrymen, he divided his. See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention between See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine and the See also:

• ORIENTAL

Oriental See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages . In 1820, having received from a friend the promise of an See also:

• ANNUITY (from Lat. annus, a year)

annuity of roo florins (about 1o) to support him during his travels, he set out for the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East . He visited See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt, and made his way to See also:

• TIBET, or THIBET

Tibet, where he spent four years in a Buddhist monastery studying the. See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language and the Buddhist literature . To his intense disappointment he soon discovered that he could not thus obtain any assistance in his See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• OBJECT

object; but, having visited See also:

• BENGAL
• BENGAL, BAY OF

Bengal, his knowledge of Tibetan obtained him employment in the library of the See also:

• ASIATIC

Asiatic Society there, which possessed more than r000 volumes in that language; and he was afterwards supported by. the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government while he published a Tibetan-See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• DICTIONARY

dictionary and See also:

• GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar (both of which appeared at See also:

• CALCUTTA

Calcutta in 1834) . Healso contributed several articles on the Tibetan language and literature to the See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and he published an See also:

• ANALYSIS (Gr. avci and Meta, to break up into parts)

analysis of the Kah-Gyur, the most important of the Buddhist sacred books . Meanwhile his fame had reached his native See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, and procured him a See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension from the government, which, with characteristic devotion to learning, he devoted to the. See also:

• PURCHASE

purchase of books for See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• LIBRARIES

libraries . He spent some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time in Calcutta, studying . See also:

• SANSKRIT

Sanskrit and several other languages; but, See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early in 1842, he commenced his second See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to discover the origin of the Hungarians, but he died at Darjiling on the r 1th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1842 . An oration was delivered in his See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour before the Hungarian See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy by See also:

• EOTVOS, JOZSEF, BARON (1813–1871)

Eotvos, the novelist .