Jean Baptiste François Joseph de Warren, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJean Baptiste François Joseph de Warren
surveyor and astronomer in British India
Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1769
Place of Birth: Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
Date of Death: 09-Feb-1830
Profession: astronomer
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Jean Baptiste François Joseph de Warren
- Jean Baptiste François Joseph de Warren or John Warren (21 September 1769 – 9 February 1830) was an army captain and later Lieutenant Colonel with Her Majesty's 33rd regiment of foot, East India Company in India, surveyor and amateur astronomer.
- While working as a surveyor in the Great Trigonometrical Survey he rediscovered what became the Kolar Gold Fields and in later life he documented Indian astronomy and time-keeping in his book Kala Sankalita.
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