Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1759
- Died
- 1841
- Works
- 31
Top works
- The strangers East Indian guide to the Hindoostanee; or grand popular language of India, (improperly called Moors.)
- Totā kahānī
- A bold epistolary rhapsody
- The general east India guide and vade mecum
- Particular and general prospectus of the Roman, Persian and Nagree characters, simple and compound, their application to the Hindoostanee language as illustrated in all the works which have been published by John Gilchrist
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- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 17
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Place of birth
- Edinburgh
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- writer
- Employer
- East India Company
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Sciences
- Field of work
- Indology
- Image
- John Borthwick Gilchrist, cropped from UCL portrait by Blanconi.jpg
- Residence
- Edinburgh
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- member of
- Royal Society of Edinburgh
- date of death
- 1841-01-09
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- date of birth
- 1759-06-19
- Commons category
- John Borthwick Gilchrist
- writing language
- English language
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