Later Life
In 1852, Krishna Mohan was appointed a professor of Oriental Studies at Bishop’s College, Shibpore, Kolkata. He had studied aspects of Christianity as a student of the same college between 1836 and 1839.
In 1864 he was elected to be a member of the Royal Asiatic Society along with Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar. In 1876 the University of Calcutta honoured him with a doctorate.
He published a 13-volume English-Bengali encyclopaedia Vidyakalpadrum (1846-1851); and also wrote The Arian Witness (1875), Dialogues on the Hindu Philosophy (1861), Upadeshkatha, and The Relation Between Christianity and Hinduism (1881).
Reverend Krishna Mohan Banerjee died on 11 May 1885 in Kolkata, and was buried at Shibpore.
Read more about this topic: Krishna Mohan Banerjee
Famous quotes containing the word life:
“Consider his life which was valueless
In terms of employment, hotel ledgers, news files.
Consider. One bullet in ten thousand kills a man.
Ask. Was so much expenditure justified
On the death of one so young and so silly
Lying under the olive tree, O world, O death?”
—Stephen Spender (1909–1995)
“The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet’s life. It is what he has become through his work. Not how is the idea expressed in stone, or on canvas or paper, is the question, but how far it has obtained form and expression in the life of the artist. His true work will not stand in any prince’s gallery.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)