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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
BornIshwar Chandra Bandopadhyay
26 September 1820
Birsingha, Bengal Presidency, British India
(now in West Bengal, India)Died29 July 1891 (aged 70)
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
(now Kolkata, West Bengal, India)OccupationWriter, philosopher, scholar, educator, translator, publisher, reformer, philanthropistLanguageBengaliNationalityIndianAlma materSanskrit College (1829–1839)Literary movementBengal RenaissanceSpouseDinamani DeviChildrenNarayan Chandra Bandyopadhyaya
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar CIE (26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891), born Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay , was a British Indian Bengali polymath and a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance.
He was a philosopher, academic educator, writer, translator, printer, publisher, entrepreneur, reformer and philanthropist. His efforts to simplify and modernize Bengali prose were significant. He also rationalized and simplified the Bengali alphabet and type, which had remained unchanged since Charles Wilkins and Panchanan Karmakar had cut the first (wooden) Bengali type in 1780. He also forced the British to pass the widow remarriage act.
He received the title "Vidyasagar" (in SanskritVidya means knowledge and Sagar means ocean, i.e., Ocean of Knowledge) from Sanskrit College, Calcutta (from where he graduated), due to his excellent performance in Sanskrit studies and philosophy. Noted Bengali mathematician Anil Kumar Gain founded Vidyasagar University, named in his honour.
In 2004, Vidyasagar was ranked number 9 in BBC's poll of the Greatest Bengali of all time.
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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
BornIshwar Chandra Bandopadhyay
26 September 1820
Birsingha, Bengal Presidency, British India
(now in West Bengal, India)Died29 July 1891 (aged 70)
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
(now Kolkata, West Bengal, India)OccupationWriter, philosopher, scholar, educator, translator, publisher, reformer, philanthropistLanguageBengaliNationalityIndianAlma materSanskrit College (1829–1839)Literary movementBengal RenaissanceSpouseDinamani DeviChildrenNarayan Chandra Bandyopadhyaya
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar CIE (26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891), born Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay , was a British Indian Bengali polymath and a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance.
He was a philosopher, academic educator, writer, translator, printer, publisher, entrepreneur, reformer and philanthropist. His efforts to simplify and modernize Bengali prose were significant. He also rationalized and simplified the Bengali alphabet and type, which had remained unchanged since Charles Wilkins and Panchanan Karmakar had cut the first (wooden) Bengali type in 1780. He also forced the British to pass the widow remarriage act.
He received the title "Vidyasagar" (in SanskritVidya means knowledge and Sagar means ocean, i.e., Ocean of Knowledge) from Sanskrit College, Calcutta (from where he graduated), due to his excellent performance in Sanskrit studies and philosophy. Noted Bengali mathematician Anil Kumar Gain founded Vidyasagar University, named in his honour.
In 2004, Vidyasagar was ranked number 9 in BBC's poll of the Greatest Bengali of all time.
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