# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-abraham-grierson
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:00:52.213Z

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name: "George Abraham Grierson"
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description: "Sir George Abraham Grierson was an Irish administrator and linguist in British India. He worked in the Indian Civil Service but an interest in philology and linguistics led him to pursue studies in the languages and folklore of India during his postings in Bengal and Bihar. He published numerous studies in the journals of learned societies and wrote several books during his administrative career but proposed a formal linguistic survey at the Oriental Congress in 1886 at Vienna. The Congress recommended the idea to the British Government and he was appointed superintendent of the newly created Linguistic Survey of India in 1898."
tagline: "Irish linguistic scholar and civil servant (1851–1941)"
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birthDate: "1851-01-07"
deathDate: "1941-03-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump