Jean Philippe Vogel (9 January 1871 in

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– 10 April 1958 in

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), popularly known by his initials J. Ph. Vogel, was a Dutch Sanskritist and

epigraphist Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

who worked with the

Archaeological Survey of India The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is an Indian government agency that is responsible for archaeological research and the conservation and preservation of cultural historical monuments in the country. It was founded in 1861 by Alexand ...

from 1901 to 1914 and later, as Professor in the

University of Leiden Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, as a reward to the city of Le ...

In the ASI

Vogel worked as Superintendent of the Punjab, Baluchistan and Ajmer based at Lahore from January 1901 to 1914. Between 1910 and 1911, he even deputised as Director General of ASI in the absence of John Marshall. As archaeologist, Vogel participated in excavations in Gandhara, the

Punjab Hill States The Punjab States Agency was an agency of the Indian Empire. The agency was created in 1921, on the model of the Central India Agency and Rajputana Agency, and dealt with forty princely states in northwest India formerly dealt with by the Prov ...

, Kusinagara and

Mathura Mathura () is a city and the administrative headquarters of Mathura district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is located approximately north of Agra, and south-east of Delhi; about from the town of Vrindavan, and from Govardhan. ...

Other works

* In the early twentieth century, Vogel helped establish the Bhuri Singh Museum in the

Chamba state Chamba State was one of the oldest princely states in present-day Republic of India, having been founded during the late 6th century. It was part of the States of the Punjab Hills of the Punjab Province of British India from 1859 to 1947. ...

. * Along with John Hutchison, Vogel authored the two-volume ''History of the Punjab Hill States'' (1933). Earlier, these two had also co-authored ''History of the Jammu State'' (1921). * The German Wikipedia has a longer article on Vogel.

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Jean Philippe Vogel, The Forgotten Icon of Kashmir Archaeology
" - article by Bhushan Parimoo, in ''The Kashmir Monitor'', Aug 14, 2017. {{DEFAULTSORT:Vogel, J. Ph. 1871 births 1958 deaths Dutch Indologists Dutch Sanskrit scholars Academic staff of Leiden University Writers from The Hague University of Amsterdam alumni Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion