Please tell me about something Henry Louis Vivian Derozio ?

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never, ever heard of the chap.. sorry.

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Henry louis born on 18.4.1809 .He was an eminentIndian Poet and Assistant Headmaster of Hindu college Kolkatta where he joind as teacher of English literature and History in 1826.He was a ridiclus thinker and one of the Indian Eductor to disseminate westernlearning and science among the young men of Bengal (India) He diedof Cholera inthe year of 1831, Dec 26. His students became prominant insocial reforms.

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[Mcs]

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is a great teacher. Henry Derozio left profoundest influence on the intellectual and moral character of his pupils. We have selected the name of one who was an Eurasian by birth, but who in his life was an All-India patriot, who died before he was twenty-three years old but within that short period exerted an influence on "Young Bengal" that has not been surpassed by any one.

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was born in 1806 of Anglo Indian parents. He received his education at Mr. Drummond's School at Dhurramtolah and showed brilliant promise. For a time he lived at Bhagalpur. Derozio was essentially a poet and a student of literature and philosophy. Already his poem The Fakir of Jangeera' had attracted attention. He had a most assimilative and alert mind and he naturally wanted to be a teacher. In 1826, at the early age of eighteen he joined the Hindu College (later on, Presidency College, Calcutta).

Derozio soon became the idol of the student community. He was both with them and of them; his lectures and conversations proved a perpetual source of inspiration. Like David Hare, be was something of a freethinker and an atheist. He infused his pupils with his own rationalism. Under his influence, they came to attack the prejudices and superstitions of Hindu religion. He established an academic Society where regular debates were held. He founded a journal—'Parthenon', in which he attacked the British Government.

The conservative section of the Hindu community sensed danger and accused Derozio of misleading the morals of the rising generation. The Managing Committee of Hindu College forced Derozio to resign.
Derozio was not the man to be daunted. Next month he started a newspaper.—The East Indian'. He also continued his work as an educationist, worked in close association with men like David Hare and Dr. Adam. Though driven from the school, his students like Ramgopal Ghosh, Dakshina Mukherjee, Radha Nath Sikdar flocked to his house. His influence with the young people continued unabated.

But he was already at the end of his brilliant career. On the 24th of December, 1802 he had an attack of cholera; the mortal disease struck him down. On the 26th he breathed his last. Seldom was a teacher so young was mourned so passionately by his students. His principle of analysing every problem in the dry light of reasoning remains.

As a teacher, Derozio not only instructed his pupils; he inspired them. He left the permanent stamp of his personality on their moral character. He was the creator of the leaders of Young Bengal—men like Dakshina Mukherji, one of the benefactors of Bethune School, Ram Gopal Ghose—orator politician, Radhanath Sikdar of Everest fame ; Ramtanu Lahiri, a born teacher, Pearychand Mitter, one of the creators of Bengali prose literature, Rev. K. M. Banerjee and many others. Even Micheal Madhusudan came under his spell. All of them acknowledged how much they owed to him. And the great teacher returned their affection in verses that deserve to be remembered—

Explanding like petals of young flowers,

I watch the gentle opening of young minds

Let new perceptions shed their influence;

And how you worship Truth's omnipotence.

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Henry Louis Vivian Derozio born in 1809 was a Eurasian poet, rationalist thinker and teacher. He was appointed a teacher of the Calcutta Hindu College in May 1826 at the young age of seventeen. The subjects he taught were English literature and history.His mode of teaching was as unconventional as were his ideas. In fact, Derozio's activities as a teacher were not confined to the classrooms. His discourses covered a wide range of subjects- literature, history, philosophy and science.

Soon he was able to arouse in his students so much enthusiasm that in 1828 he helped them in establishing a literary and debating club of their own known as the Academic Association. The Academic Association was a successful venture and its fortnightly meetings, which were held at a garde liberal-minded and philanthropic Europeans. Its success encouraged students to establish similar societies in various parts of Calcutta. Although Derozio was president of the Academic Association, he was also connected with most of the other societies as a member and took active interest in their activities.

Derozio's teachings promoted a critical outlook among his students who began to express doubt and dissatisfaction with the existing order. This young radical thinkers came to be known as Young Bengal and started the phase of Young Bengal Movement in Indian history. Influenced by the rationalist philosophy of David Hume and Jeremy Bentham and radical thinkers like Thomas Paine, they had begun to measure everything with the yardstick of reason. Towards religion their attitude was Voltairean. They did not hesitate to denounce openly the Hindu religion.

Derozio's teachings produced great commotion in the Hindu society. He was accused of promoting heresy among his students most of whom came from orthodox Hindu families. The matter was brought to the notice of the Managing Committee of the Hindu College, which was dominated by conservative Hindus led by Raja Radhakanta Deb. Derozio was dismissed from the Hindu College in April 1831. His dismissal, however, did not curb the radical movement. In fact, Derozio had now more freedom than before to express his ideas. Nor did he loose contact with his students.

Derozio was also actively involved in promoting the welfare of his Eurasian community, and had begun editing a daily English newspaper,The East Indian. He now encouraged some of his young Hindu disciples to take to journalism and disseminate their radical ideas through this important medium. Thus, Krishnamohan Benerji had started in May 1831 an English weekly newspaper, The Enquirer, and in the following month Dakshinaranjan Mukherji and Rasik Krishna Mallick began to publish a Bengali (later also English) newspaper, the Jnananvesan. Through these journals, apparently conducted under Derozio's guidance, the young radicals launched bitter attacks upon Hindu conservatism.

The sudden death of Derozio in December 1831 , which was supposed due to slow poisoning, gave a severe blow to the cause of the radicals. Nevertheless, the spirit of enlightenment which this remarkable teacher had kindled in the minds of his young Hindu students continued to inspire succeeding generations and left a permanent impact on the social outlook of the Bengali Hindu community.