Michael Viggo Fausböll (22 September 1821 – 3 June 1908) was a

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educator, translator, orientalist and linguist. He is most noted as a pioneer of

Pāli Pali () is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language native to the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist ''Pāli Canon'' or '' Tipiṭaka'' as well as the sacred language of ''Theravāda'' Buddhi ...

scholarship.

Biography

Fausbøll was born at Hove near

Lemvig Lemvig, with a population of 6,816 (2022),BY3: Po ...

, Denmark. He became a student at the

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in 1838 and received his Cand.theol. in 1847. From 1878-1902 Fausbøll was professor at the

where he taught

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and East Indian philology, His version of the '' Dhammapada'' was published in 1855 with a new edition in 1900. It formed the basis for the first translation of this text into English, by philologist,

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(1823–1900) in the ''

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'', a 50-volume set published by Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. He became a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1888, Dannebrogsmand in 1891 and Commander 2nd degree in 1898. He died at

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in 1908 and was buried at Gentofte Cemetery.

Publications

Fausböll's translations include: * ''The Dhammapada: Being a collection of moral verses in Pali'' (trans. into Latin) (Copenhagen, 1855). * '' Sutta-Nipata'' ''(

)'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1881; and, London: PTS, 1885). * ''

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with

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'' (London: PTS, 1877-1896). Fausböll also wrote: * ''Indian mythology according to the

Mahabharata The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; sa, महाभारतम्, ', ) is one of the two major Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epics of ancient India in Hinduism, the other being the ''Ramayana, Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the s ...

''. (London: Luzac, 1903; reprinted as ''Indian mythology according to the Indian epics'', New Delhi: Cosmo, 1981)
Fausbøll, V. (Viggo), 1821-1908
''Library of Congress'' Retrieved 12 Nov. 2008

References

External links

Fausböll, V. (trans.) (1881)

translated from the Pâli by V. Fausböll; translated into English by F. Max Müller {{DEFAULTSORT:Fausboll, Viggo 1821 births 1908 deaths People from Lemvig Municipality University of Copenhagen alumni University of Copenhagen faculty Indologists Buddhist studies scholars Danish orientalists Danish educators 18th-century Danish translators Translators from Pali Commanders Second Class of the Order of the Dannebrog