Henry derozio biography
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Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was an Indian poet and a radical thinker from the 19th Century. He started the Young Bengal Movement in He was an assistant headmaster of Hindu College at Calcutta from to Derozio inspired his students to think rationally and freely, to question all authority, and to worship truth. He was also one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning and science among the youth of Bengal.
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was born on 18 April in Calcutta. His father, Francis Derozio, was a Christian Indo-Portuguese office worker and his mother, Sophia Johnson Derozio, was an English woman. From age 6 to 14, he attended David Drummond Dharmatala Academy School. Drummond taught him that rationalism is a much greater treasure than the old customs. While a student, Derozio started reading the poetry of his contemporaries, John Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley.
At the age of 14, Vivian Derozio left school to work. He initially joined his
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Henry Derozio was an early 19th-century poet, teacher, and thinker who played a significant role in the Bengal Renaissance in India. Derozio was born in Kolkata in to an Indo-Portuguese father and an English mother. He was known for his
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Derozio, Henry () poet, rationalist thinker and teacher. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was appointed a teacher of the Calcutta hindu college in May when he was only seventeen. The subjects he taught were English literature and history. His mode of teaching was very unconventional. He loved to discuss new ideas and motivate his students to independent thinking. In fact, Derozio's activities as a teacher were not confined to the classrooms. He loved to converse with his students even outside the College premises, frequently at his own residence, on any matter which aroused their interests. In fact, his discourses covered a wide range of subjects- literature, history, philosophy and sciences.
Soon he was able to arouse in them so much enthusiasm that in he helped them in establishing a literary and debating club of their own known as the Academic Association, which provided a common meeting ground outside the restrictions of the classroom where young men under his guidance could dis