Year: 1960
Type: article
Abstract: BAENETTWith the death of Dr. L. D. Barnett almost the last of a great generation of Indologists has passed away.Born in Liverpool on 21 October 1871, he had a brilliant career at the Victoria University of Manchester and Liverpool and afterwards at Cambridge, where he entered Trinity College in 1892, completing his Classical Tripos in 1896, when he won the Chancellor's Medal.For two years, as Craven Student, he studied in Halle and Berlin, returning to Cambridge to receive his M.A. in 1899, and gaining a doctorate of Victoria University in the following year.He was disappointed at not obtaining a fellowship at Cambridge, and for a while considered emigrating to New Zealand, but ultimately decided to
Author: A. L. Basham
Language: English
Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2129770401