FITZEDWARD

HALL (1825-1901)  , American Orientalist, was born in Troy, New York, on the 21st of March 1825 . He graduated with the degree of civil engineer from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy in 1842, and entered Harvard in the class of 1846; just before his class graduated he left college and went to India in search of a runaway brother . In January r85o he was appointed tutor, and in 1853 professor of Sanskrit and English, in the government college at Benares; and in 1855 was made inspector of public instruction in Ajmere-Merwara and in 1856 in the Central Provinces . He settled in England in 1862 and received the appointment to the chair of Sanskrit, Hindustani and Indian jurisprudence in King's College, London, and to the librarianship of the India Office . He died at Marlesford, Suffolk, on the 1st of February 1901 . Hall was the first American to edit a Sanskrit text, the Vishnupurana; his library of a thousand Oriental MSS. he gave to Harvard University . His works include: in Sanskrit, Atmabodha (1852), Sankhyapravachana (1856), Saryasiddhanta (1859), Vasavadattu (1859), Sankhyasara (1862) and Dasarupa (1865); in Hindi, Ballantynes' Hindi Grammar (1868) and a Reader (1870); on English philology, Recent . Exemplifications of False Philology (1872), attacking Richard Grant White, Modern English (1873), ` On English Adjectives in -able, with Special Reference to Reliable " (Am . Jour . Philology, 1877), Doctor Indoctus (188o) .