K. R. Norman
Kenneth Roy Norman FBA (21 July 19255 November 2020) was a British philologist at the University of Cambridge and a leading authority on Pali and other Middle Indo-Aryan languages. Life Norman was born on 21 July 1925, and was educated at Taunton School in Somerset and Downing College, Cambridge, 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. He died on 5 November 2020, at the age of ninety-five. Notable works Translations Elders' Verses: Vol. I (1969, 2nd ed. 2007), a translation of the Theragāthā Elders' Verses: Vol. II (1971, 2nd ed. 2007), a translation of the Therīgāthā The Word of the Doctrine (1991), a translation of the Dhammapada The Group