# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-prinsep
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:38.115Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-prinsep"
name: "James Prinsep"
slug: "james-prinsep"
description: "James Prinsep was an English scholar, orientalist and antiquary. He was the founding editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and is best remembered for deciphering the Kharosthi and Brahmi scripts of ancient India. He studied, documented and illustrated many aspects of numismatics, metallurgy, and meteorology apart from pursuing his career in India as an assay master at the mint in Benares."
tagline: "British scholar, orientalist and antiquary (1799–1840)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Prinsep.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1799-08-20"
deathDate: "1840-04-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           16.107388
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump