Ashutosh Mukherjee, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ashutosh Mukherjee

Indian academic

Date of Birth: 29-Jun-1864

Place of Birth: Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Date of Death: 25-May-1924

Profession: judge, lawyer, professor

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee CSI, FRSE, FRAS, FPSL, MRIA (anglicised, originally Asuto?h Mukhopadhya?a, also anglicised to Asutosh Mookerjee) (29 June 1864 – 25 May 1924) was a prolific Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician.
He was the first student to be awarded a dual degree (MA in Mathematics and Physics) from Calcutta University.
Perhaps the most emphatic figure of Indian education, he was a man of great personality, high self-respect, courage and towering administrative ability.
The second Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23), Mukherjee was responsible for the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906 and the College of Science of the Calcutta University in 1914. Mukherjee also played a vital role in the founding of the University College of Law popularly known as Hazra Law College.
The Calcutta Mathematical Society was also founded by Mukherjee in 1908 and he served as the president of the Society from 1908 to 1923.
He was also the president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress in 1914.
The Ashutosh College was also founded under his stewardship in 1916, when he was Vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta. He was often called "Banglar Bagh" ("Tiger of Bengal") for his high self-esteem, courage, academic integrity and a general intransigent attitude towards the British Government.



Alternative names	Rabindranatha Thakur; Kabiguru; Tagore; Bishwakabi
Description	Bengali author and composer
Date of birth/death	7 May 1861	7 August 1941
Location of birth/death	Calcutta	Calcutta
Authority control	: Q7241 VIAF: 24608356 ISNI: 0000 0001 2099 9155 ULAN: 500121702 LCCN: n80036680 NLA: 35537863 WorldCat