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Edward Byles Cowell, FBA (23 January 1826 – 9 February 1903) was a noted translator of Persian poetry and the first professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University.Cowell was born in Ipswich, the son of Charles Cowell and Marianne Byles. Elizabeth "Beth" Cowell, the painter, was his sister. He became interested in Oriental languages at the age of fifteen, when he found a copy of Sir William Jones's works (including his Persian Grammar) in the public library. Self-taught, he began translating and publishing Hafez within the year.

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  • إيدوارد بايلز كوويل (بالإنجليزية: Edward Byles Cowell)‏ هو مترجم ومختص في الشعر الفارسي. (ar)
  • Edward Byles Cowell, FBA (23 January 1826 – 9 February 1903) was a noted translator of Persian poetry and the first professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University.Cowell was born in Ipswich, the son of Charles Cowell and Marianne Byles. Elizabeth "Beth" Cowell, the painter, was his sister. He became interested in Oriental languages at the age of fifteen, when he found a copy of Sir William Jones's works (including his Persian Grammar) in the public library. Self-taught, he began translating and publishing Hafez within the year. On the death of his father in 1842 he took over the family business. He married in 1845, and in 1850 entered Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied and catalogued Persian manuscripts for the Bodleian Library. From 1856 to 1867 he lived in Calcutta as professor of English history at Presidency College. He was also as principal of Sanskrit College from 1858 to 1864. In this year he discovered a manuscript of Omar Khayyám's quatrains in the Asiatic Society's library and sent a copy to London for his friend and student, Edward Fitzgerald, who then produced the famous English translations (the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1859). He also published, unsigned, an introduction to Khayyám with translations of thirty quatrains in the Calcutta Review (1858). Having studied Hindustani, Bengali, and Sanskrit with Indian scholars, he returned to England to take up an appointment as the first professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge. He was professor from 1867 until his death in 1903. He was made an honorary member of the German Oriental Society (DMG) in 1895, was awarded the Royal Asiatic Society's first gold medal in 1898, and in 1902 became a founding member of the British Academy. In 1904 Macmillan published Life and Letters of Edward Byles Cowell: Professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge, 1867–1903 by his cousin George Cowell, F.R.C.S. (en)
  • Edward Byles Cowell, FBA (23 janvier 1826 - 9 février 1903) est un traducteur renommé de poésie persane et le premier professeur de sanskrit à l'Université de Cambridge . (fr)
  • Edward Byles Cowell, född den 23 januari 1826, död den 9 februari 1903, var en brittisk sanskritist. Han studerade i Oxford, reste 1854 till Indien och var 1862-67 professor vid Presidency college i Calcutta. Cowell utnämndes 1867 till professor i sanskrit i Cambridge. Han ledde och tog fram till sin död viktig del i den engelska Jakataöversättningen (1895-97, index 1913), samt utgav Mountstuart Elphinstones History of India (1873) och Henry Thomas Colebrookes Miscellaneous Essays (1873). Cowell översatte Vararucis prakritgrammatika (1854), Yajurveda (1856–1860), Kanshitaki upanishad (1861) och Maitrayanija upanishad (1870), Kusuman-jali (1864; ett hinduiskt vittnesbörd om tron på ett högsta väsende), Buddha-Karita (1893–1894), med flera, samt utgav (1886; en samling äldre buddhistiska legender på sanskrit), med flera. (sv)
  • Э́двард Байлс Ко́уэлл (англ. Edward Byles Cowell; 23 января 1826 — 9 февраля 1903) — английский санскритолог. Был директором Sanskrit College в Калькутте, позже стал профессором санскрита в Кембриджском университете. Важнейшие труды Коуэлла: * перевод «Vikramorvaçо» (Гертф., 1851); * издание и перевод «Prâkrita-Prakâça» Вараручи (Гертф., 1854; 2 изд., Лондон, 1868); * издание и перевод «Katha-Upanischad» (Калькутта, 1861), «Maitri-Upanishad» (Калькутта, 1864), «Kusumâсjali» (Калькутта, 1864); * «A short introduction to the ordinary Prakrit of the sanskrit Dramas» (Лондон, 1875); * перевод «Çândilya-Sûtras» (Калькутта, 1878). (ru)
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  • إيدوارد بايلز كوويل (بالإنجليزية: Edward Byles Cowell)‏ هو مترجم ومختص في الشعر الفارسي. (ar)
  • Edward Byles Cowell, FBA (23 janvier 1826 - 9 février 1903) est un traducteur renommé de poésie persane et le premier professeur de sanskrit à l'Université de Cambridge . (fr)
  • Edward Byles Cowell, FBA (23 January 1826 – 9 February 1903) was a noted translator of Persian poetry and the first professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University.Cowell was born in Ipswich, the son of Charles Cowell and Marianne Byles. Elizabeth "Beth" Cowell, the painter, was his sister. He became interested in Oriental languages at the age of fifteen, when he found a copy of Sir William Jones's works (including his Persian Grammar) in the public library. Self-taught, he began translating and publishing Hafez within the year. (en)
  • Э́двард Байлс Ко́уэлл (англ. Edward Byles Cowell; 23 января 1826 — 9 февраля 1903) — английский санскритолог. Был директором Sanskrit College в Калькутте, позже стал профессором санскрита в Кембриджском университете. Важнейшие труды Коуэлла: (ru)
  • Edward Byles Cowell, född den 23 januari 1826, död den 9 februari 1903, var en brittisk sanskritist. Han studerade i Oxford, reste 1854 till Indien och var 1862-67 professor vid Presidency college i Calcutta. Cowell utnämndes 1867 till professor i sanskrit i Cambridge. Han ledde och tog fram till sin död viktig del i den engelska Jakataöversättningen (1895-97, index 1913), samt utgav Mountstuart Elphinstones History of India (1873) och Henry Thomas Colebrookes Miscellaneous Essays (1873). (sv)
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  • Коуэлл, Эдвард Байлс (ru)
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