Henry Derozio

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-1831), one of the pioneers among the makers of modern Bengal, was born to a Portuguese man and his Indian wife in Calcutta on 18 April 1809. He became a famous poet at the age of eighteen. He taught English and History at Hindu College Calcutta, and did more to impart the idea of young India than any other personae of his times. A teacher, philosopher and poet, Derozio brought the first waves of European enlightenment into the new education system that was then taking shape.