John Thompson Platts
John Thompson Platts (1830–1904), was a British language scholar. His Persian and Hindi grammars were a marked advance upon the work of any English predecessor, and are still in use today.
Biography
Platts was born in
Northwest Provinces
and, in 1868, he became officiating inspector of schools, northern circle, Central Provinces. He retired in March 1872, owing to ill-health.
Platts then returned to
honoris causa. In March 1901, he received the degree of Master of Arts by decree. He died suddenly in London on 21 September 1904, and was buried at Wolvercote Cemetery near Oxford
.
Platts married twice: first, in 1856, in Lahore, Pakistan, to Alice Jane Kenyon, by whom he had three sons and four daughters; and second, in 1876, to Mary Elizabeth Hayes of Melbourne, Australia. They had one son.
Published works
- 1. A Grammar of the Hindustani Language (1874).
- 2. A Hindustani-English Dictionary (1881).
- 3. A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English (1884).
- 4. A Grammar of the Persian Language, Part I: Accidence (1894).
- He also edited the text of Gulistan of Sa'di (1872), and published Sa'di (Shaikh Muslihuddin Shirazi), photographed from manuscripts under his supervision (1891). He translated the Ikhwanu-s-Safa of Maulavi Ikram Ali (1875), and the Gulistan of Sa'di (1876).
Further reading
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
External links
- Works by or about John Thompson Platts at Internet Archive
- Works by John Thompson Platts at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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