K. R. Norman


Kenneth Roy Norman FBA is a British philologist. He is Professor Emeritus of Indian Studies at the University of Cambridge, and is a leading authority on Pali and other Middle Indo-Aryan languages.

Life

Norman was educated at Taunton School in Somerset. After military service in India and Malaya, he was admitted to Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied classics, receiving his M.A. in 1954.
The whole of his academic career was spent at Cambridge. He was appointed Lecturer in Indian Studies in 1955, Reader in 1978, and Professor of Indian Studies in 1990. He retired in 1992.
From 1981 to 1994 he was President of the Pali Text Society, and from January to March 1994 he was the Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai Visiting Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
He was made a Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 1983 and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1985.

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