Lorenz Franz Kielhorn (31 May 1840,
Osnabrück
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- 19 March 1908,
Göttingen
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) was a German
Indologist
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.
He studied under
Theodor Benfey :''This is about the German philologist. For Theodor Benfey (born 1925) who developed a spiral periodic table of the elements in 1964, see Otto Theodor Benfey.''
Theodor Benfey (; 28 January 1809, in Nörten near Göttingen26 June 1881, in Göttin ...
at the
University of Göttingen
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, where he became member of
Burschenschaft Hannovera
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(fraternity), and under
Adolf Friedrich Stenzler at
Breslau and with
Albrecht Weber in
Berlin
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.
[Otto Böhtlingk an Rudolf Roth]
by Otto von Böhtlingk
Otto von Böhtlingk (russian: Оттон Николаевич Бётлингк, ''Otton Nikolayevich Byotlingk''; 30 May 1815 – 1 April 1904) was a Russian-German Indologist and Sanskrit scholar. His '' magnum opus'' was a Sanskrit-German dict ...
, Rudolf von Roth
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Biography
R ...
, Heidrun Brückner, Gabriele Zeller, Agnes Stache-Weiske In 1862-65 he worked in
Oxford
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, where he assisted
Monier Williams
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in the production of a Sanskrit dictionary. While here, he also consulted with
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, when the latter was working on his first edition of
Rigveda
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. From 1866 to 1881 he was a professor of
Sanskrit
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at
Deccan College in
Pune
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, 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 '']Epigraphia Indica
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''. After the death of Georg Bühler
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(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
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(CIE) for his services in Pune. He received the honorary degree ''Doctor of Laws
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'' (LL.D.) from the University of Glasgow
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in June 1901, and the honorary degree ''Doctor of Letters
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'' (D.Litt.) from the University of Oxford
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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
Wilhelm Heinrich Solf (5 October 1862 – 6 February 1936) was a German scholar, diplomat, jurist and statesman.
Early life
Solf was born into a wealthy and liberal family in Berlin. He attended secondary schools in Anklam, western Pomerania, an ...
in 1888).Brockhaus' konversations-lexikon, Volume 14
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* ''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
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1840 births
1908 deaths
German Indologists
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University of Göttingen faculty
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