Suniti Kumar Chatterjee
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Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (1890-1977) linguist, educationist, litterateur, was born on 26 October 1890 at Shivpur in Howrah, son of Haridas Chattopadhyay. Suniti Kumar was a meritorious student, and passed the Entrance (1907) from Motilal Free School, ranking sixth, and the FA from Scottish Church College, standing third. In London, he studied Phonology, Indo-European Linguistics, Prakrit, Persian, old Irish, Gothic and other languages. He then went to Paris and did research at the Sorbonne in Indo-Aryan, Slav and Indo-European Linguistics, Greek and Latin. Returning to India in 1922, he joined the University of Calcutta as a professor. After retirement he was made Professor Emeritus and, in 1963, National Professor.
Suniti Kumar accompanied Rabindranath Tagore to Malaya, Sumatra, Java, and Bali, where he delivered lectures on Indian art and culture. He was Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly (1952-58) and President (1969) of the Sahitya Academy.
Among his important publications on both language and literature are
- The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language,
- Bengali Phonetic Reader etc.
Suniti Kumar died on May 29, 1977 in Calcutta.
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