Sushil Kumar De

Sushil Kumar De (29 January 1890 – 31 January 1968) was a Bengali writer from the early decades of the 20th century. Trained as a lawyer, with degrees in English and Sanskrit poetics, he wrote extensively on Sanskrit literature, philosophy, poetics, and the history of Bengali literature, besides editing critical editions for a large number of Sanskrit and Bengali texts from manuscripts.

He was a professor of English literature at Calcutta University, and of Sanskrit and Bengali at Dhaka University. While at the latter post, he accumulated a large collection of palmleaf manuscripts. Provided by Wikipedia