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Harold Walter Bailey + (Sir+Harold+Walter+Bailey%2C+FBA+%2816+Dece … Sir+Harold+Walter+Bailey%2C+FBA+%2816+December+1899%E2%80%9311+January+1996%29%2C+who+published+as+H.+W.+Bailey%2C+was+an+eminent+English+scholar+of+Khotanese%2C+Sanskrit%2C+and+the+comparative+study+of+Iranian+languages.%0A%0ABailey+has+been+described+as+one+of+the+greatest+Orientalists+of+the+twentieth+century.+He+was+said+to+read+more+than+50+languages.%0A%0AIn+1929+Bailey+began+his+doctoral+dissertation%2C+a+translation+with+notes+of+the+%27%27Greater+Bundahishn%27%27%2C+a+compendium+of+Zoroastrian+writings+in+Middle+Persian+recorded+in+the+Pahlavi+scripts.+He+became+the+world%27s+leading+expert+in+the+Khotanese+dialect+of+the+Saka+language%2C+the+mediaeval+Iranian+language+of+the+Kingdom+of+Khotan+%28modern+Xinjiang%29.+His+initial+motivation+for+the+study+of+Khotanese+was+an+interest+in+the+possible+connection+with+the+%27%27Bundahishn%27%27.+He+later+passed+his+material+on+that+work+to+Kaj+Barr.%0A%0AHe+was+known+for+his+immensely+erudite+lectures%2C+and+once+confessed%3A+%22I+have+talked+for+ten+and+a+half+hours+on+the+problem+of+one+word+without+approaching+the+further+problem+of+its+meaning.%22%0A%0ABailey+was+elected+a+Fellow+of+the+British+Academy+in+1944%2C+and+subsequently+a+member+of+the+Danish%2C+Norwegian+and+Swedish+Academies.+He+received+honorary+degrees+from+four+universities+including+Oxford%3B+served+as+president+of+Philological+Society%2C+the+Royal+Asiatic+Society%2C+the+Society+for+Afghan+Studies%2C+and+the+Society+of+Mithraic+Studies%3B+and+chaired+the+Anglo-Iranian+Society+and+Ancient+India+and+Iran+Trust.+He+was+knighted+for+services+to+Oriental+studies+in+1960.+%28%5Bhttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHarold_Walter_Bailey+Source+Accessed+Dec+6%2C+2019%5D%29%0A%0ASee+complete+biography+in+%5Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.iranicaonline.org%2Farticles%2Fbailey-harold-walter-1+Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Iranica%5Drold-walter-1+Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Iranica%5D)