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BOHTLINGK, OTTO VON (18'5—1004)

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BOHTLINGK, See also:OTTO VON (18'5—1004) See also:German See also:Sanskrit See also:scholar, was See also:born on the 3oth of May ('rth of See also:June O.S.) 1815 at St See also:Petersburg. Having studied( '833—1835)See also:Oriental See also:languages, particularly Arabic, See also:Persian and Sanskrit, at the university of St Petersburg, he continued his studies in See also:Germany, first in See also:Berlin and then (1839—1842) in See also:Bonn. Returning to St See also:Peters-See also:burg in 1842, he was attached to the Royal See also:Academy of Sciences, and was elected an See also:ordinary member of that society in 1855. See also:BOHUN 137 In 186o he was made " See also:Russian See also:state councillor," and later " privy councillor " with a See also:title of See also:nobility. In '868 he settled at See also:Jena, and in '885 removed to See also:Leipzig, where he resided until his See also:death there on the 1st of See also:April 1904. Bohtlingk was one of the most distinguished scholars of the '9th See also:century, and his See also:works are of pre-eminent value in the See also:field of See also:Indian and See also:comparative See also:philology. His first See also:great See also:work was an edition of Panini's Acht Bucker grammatischer Regeln (Bonn, 1839—1840), which was in reality a See also:criticism of See also:Franz See also:Bopp's philological methods. This See also:book Bohtlingk again took up See also:forty-seven years later, when he republished it with a See also:complete See also:translation under the title Paninis Grammatik mit Ubersetzung (Leipzig, '887). The earlier edition was followed by Vopadevas Grammatik (St Peters-burg, 1847); Uber See also:die Sprache der Jakuten (St Petersburg, '85') ; Indische Sprache (2nd ed. in 3 parts, St Petersburg, '870—1873, to which an See also:index was published by Blau, Leipzig,' 893) ; a See also:critical examination and translation of Chhandogya-upanishad (St Peters-burg, '889) and a translation of Brihadaranyaka-upanishad (St Petersburg, 1889) In addition to these he published several smaller See also:treatises, notably one on the Sanskrit accents, Uber den See also:Accent See also:im Sanskrit (1843). But his magnum See also:opus is his great Sanskrit See also:dictionary, Sanskrit-Worterbuch (7 vols., St Petersburg, 1853—1875; newed. 7 vols., St Petersburg, '879—1889), which with the assistance of his two See also:friends, See also:Rudolf See also:Roth (1821—1895) and Albrecht See also:Weber (b. 1825), was completed in twenty-three years.

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