Frederick William Thomas (philologist)
Frederick William Thomas | |
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| Born | 21 March 1867 University College, London, Balliol College, Oxford |
Frederick William Thomas CIE FBA (21 March 1867 – 6 May 1956), usually cited as F. W. Thomas, was an English Indologist and Tibetologist.
Life
Thomas was born on 21 March 1867 in
Browne medal in both 1888 and 1889.[1] At Cambridge he studied Sanskrit under the influential Orientalist Edward Byles Cowell
.
He was a librarian at the India Office Library (now subsumed into the
.Thomas became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1927. He died on 6 May 1956.[2]
Work
Thomas collaborated with
Zhangzhung language
.
His catalogues of the Tibetan manuscripts from Central Asia brought to the India Office Library by
Marc Aurel Stein remained unpublished until 2007, when his catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts from Stein's third expedition was published on the website of the International Dunhuang Project
.
Publications
- (1897) (with E.B. Cowell) The Harsa-carita of Bana. London: Royal Asiatic Society.
- (1903) Catalogue of Sanskrit MSS.
- (1929) (with Sten Konow) Two medieval documents from Tun-Huang. Oslo, A.W. Brøggers boktrykkeri.
- (1933) Arthur Anthony Macdonell, 1854-1930. London: Milford.
- (1935-1963) Tibetan literary texts and documents concerning Chinese Turkestan. [4 vols.] London: Royal Asiatic Society.
- (1940-1946) (with Jacques Bacot and Gustave-Charles Toussaint) Documents de Touen-houang relatifs à l'histoire du Tibet. Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner.
- (1948) Nam, an ancient language of the Sino-Tibetan borderland. London, Oxford Univ. Press.
- (1957) Ancient folk-literature from North-Eastern Tibet. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
- (2007) Stein Tibetan: Third Expedition http://idp.bl.uk/database/oo_cat.a4d?shortref=Thomas_2007
References
- ^ a b "Thomas, Frederick William (THMS885FW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ British Academy Fellowship record Archived 2015-10-01 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 30 September 2015
External links
- Katz, J. B. "Thomas, Frederick William". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36472. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Obituary, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
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