About Francis Johnson
Lived 1796 – 1876 (aged 79–80). Francis Johnson was a linguist.
Francis Johnson (c. 1795/96 – 29 January 1876) was a British linguist.
He taught Sanskrit, Telugu and Bengali at the East India Company College between 1824 and 1855. He compiled a comprehensive Persian, Arabic, and English dictionary ("A dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and English. By Francis Johnson." London : Wm. H. Allen and Co., 7, Leadenhall-Street, 1852), which is the main thing he is remembered for.
He married in 1857 and died in Hertford in 1876.
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Who was Francis Johnson?
British linguist and lexicographer
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Francis Johnson was born in 1796.
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Francis Johnson died in 1876.
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Francis Johnson was a linguist.
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