Lorenz Franz Kielhorn (31 May 1840, Osnabrück - 19 March 1908, Göttingen) was a German Indologist. He studied under Theodor Benfey at the University of Göttingen, where he became member of Burschenschaft Hannovera (fraternity), and under

Adolf Friedrich Stenzler Adolf Friedrich Stenzler (July 9, 1807 – February 27, 1887) was a German Indologist born in Wolgast. He initially studied theology and Oriental languages at the University of Greifswald under Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten (1792–1860), ...

at Breslau and with

Albrecht Weber Friedrich Albrecht Weber (; 17 February 1825 – 30 November 1901) was a Prussian - German Indologist and historian who studied the history of Jainism in India. Some older sources have the first and middle names interchanged. Weber was born in B ...

in Berlin.Otto Böhtlingk an Rudolf Roth
by Otto von Böhtlingk,

Rudolf von Roth Rudolf von Roth (born Walter Rudolph Roth, 3 April 1821 – 23 June 1895) was a German Indologist, founder of the Vedic philology. His chief work is a monumental Sanskrit dictionary, compiled in collaboration with Otto von Böhtlingk. Biography ...

, Heidrun Brückner, Gabriele Zeller, Agnes Stache-Weiske In 1862-65 he worked in Oxford, where he assisted Monier Williams in the production of a Sanskrit dictionary. While here, he also consulted with Friedrich Max Müller, when the latter was working on his first edition of Rigveda. From 1866 to 1881 he was a professor of Sanskrit at Deccan College in Pune, and after 1882, a professor at the University of Göttingen. Kielhorn's results from the handling of rich material that he himself partially collected and partially got sent, is mainly explained in ''Indian antiquary'' and ''

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''. After the death of Georg Bühler (1837-1898), he edited th
"''Grundriss der indoarischen Philologie''"
Together with Bühler, Kielhorn had initiated the series ''Bombay Sanskrit Series''. Kielhorn was appointed an honorary Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) for his services in Pune. He received the honorary degree '' Doctor of Laws'' (LL.D.) from the University of Glasgow in June 1901, and the honorary degree '' Doctor of Letters'' (D.Litt.) from the University of Oxford in June 1902.

Works

* ''Çāntanava’s Phitsūtra'' (with translation in ''Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes'', IV, 1866) * ''Nāgojibhatta’s Paribhāşenduçekhara'' (translated in ''Bombay Sanskrit series'' 1868) * ''Sanskrit grammar'' (1870, translated into German by Wilhelm Solf in 1888).Brockhaus' konversations-lexikon, Volume 14
Google Books * ''Kātyāyana and Patanjali'' (1876) * ''The Vyākarana-mahābhāşya of Patanjali'' (3 volumes in ''Bombay Sanskrit series'', 1880–85) * ''Report on the search of Sanskrit manuscripts'' (1881)
''A grammar of the Sanskrit language''
(1888).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kielhorn, Lorenz Franz 1840 births 1908 deaths German Indologists German male non-fiction writers University of Göttingen faculty Writers from Osnabrück