Ramchandra Vidyabagish (Bengali:রামচন্দ্র বিদ্যাবাগীশ; 1786 – 2 March 1845) was an Indian lexicographer and Sanskrit scholar. HisBangabhashabhidhan, the first monolingualBengali dictionary, was published in 1817. He taught at the Vedanta College established byRaja Rammohun Roy, and later atSanskrit College from 1827 to 1837. Closely associated with the work of Rammohun Roy in Kolkata, he was the first secretary of the Brahmo Sabha, established in 1828, and initiatedDebendranath Tagore and 21 other young men intoBrahmo Samaj in 1843.

• Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Anjali Bose (1988) (ed.)Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan (Biographical dictionary) (in Bengali), Calcutta: Sahitya Sansad, p. 472.

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