Charles Otto Blagden

Charles Otto Blagden (6September 186425August 1949) was an English Orientalist and linguist who specialised in the Malay, Mon and Pyu languages. He is particularly known for his studies of Burmese epigraphic inscriptions in the Mon and Pyu scripts.

Biography

Blagden was educated at Dulwich College in London, after which he obtained a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Oxford University where he read Classics, graduating with a first class degree. In 1897 he returned to England due to ill health, and the following year he became a Holt Scholar of Gray's Inn in London. In 1897 he was called to the bar, and for the next seventeen years he practiced law, co-authoring a number of legal works, whilst continuing to publish academic articles on Malay, Mon and Pyu.

Works

1898. "The medieval chronology of Malacca". 1902. "A Malayan element in some of the languages of Southern Indo-China". In Journal of the Straits Branch, Royal Asian Society no. 38. 1906. With Walter William Skeat. Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula. London, Macmillan and Co. 1906. "Siam and the Malay Peninsula". In Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 1909. "Notes on Malay history". In Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 1910. "Quelques notions sur la phonétique du Talain et son évolution historique". In Journal asiatique. 1912. "Notes on Talaing epigraphy". 1914. "The Pyu inscriptions". In Epigraphica Indica vol. 12 no. 16: 127–137. 1917. With Richard Winstedt. A Malay Reader. Oxford : Clarendon Press. 1920. Môn Inscriptions. Rangoon: Government Printery and Stationery. 1928. "The inscriptions of the Kalyāṇīsīmā, Pegu". In Epigraphia Birmanica. 1960. English-Malay phrase-book. Singapore; Malays Publishing House.

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