HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-19o1), American oriental ist, was born in Troy, N.Y., on March 21, 1825. He graduated at the Rensselaer Polytechnic institute at Troy in 1842, and entered Harvard in the class of 1846; just before his class grad uated he went to India in search of a runaway brother. In Jan. 185o he was appointed tutor, and in 1853 professor of Sanskrit and English, in the Government college at Benares; in 1855 he was made inspector of public instruction in Ajmere-Merwara and in 1856 in the Central Provinces. He settled in England in 1862 and received the appointment to the chair of Sanskrit, Hindustani and Indian jurisprudence in King's college, London, and to the librarianship of the India Office. He died at Marles ford, Suffolk, on Feb. 1, 1901.
Hall ed. and trans. in the Bibliotheca Indica, many oriental works, including A'tma-bodha (1852), Sankhya-pravachana-bhashya (1856), V asavadat to and the Dasa-rzi pa (1865) . He also was the author of A Contribution towards an Index to the Bibliography of the Indian Philosophical Systems (1859), text-books, and several works on English philology. His valuable collection of oriental mss. he gave to Harvard university.