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See also:HAUG, See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
MARTIN (1827–1876) , See also:German Orientalist, was See also:born at Ostdorf near Balingen, See also:Wurttemberg, on the 30th of See also:January 1827. He became a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil in the gymnasium at See also:Stuttgart at a comparatively See also:late See also:age, and in 1848 he entered the university of See also:Tubingen, where he studied See also:Oriental See also:languages, especially See also:Sanskrit. He afterwards attended lectures in See also:Gottingen, and in 18J4 settled as Privatdozent at See also:Bonn. In 1856 he removed to See also:Heidelberg, where he assisted See also:Bunsen in his See also:literary under-takings; and in 1859 he accepted an invitation to See also:India, where he became See also:superintendent of Sanskrit studies and See also:professor of Sanskrit in See also:Poona. Here his acquaintance with the Zend See also:language and literature afforded him excellent opportunities for extending his knowledge of this See also:branch of literature. The result of his researches was a See also:volume of Essays on the sacred language, writings and See also:religion of the See also:Parsees (Bombay, 1862). Having returned to Stuttgart in 1866, he was called to See also:Munich as professor of Sanskrit and See also:comparative See also:philology in 1868.
He died on the 3rd of See also:June 1876.
Besides the Essays on the Parsees, of which a new edition, by E. W. See also:West, greatly enriched from the See also:posthumous papers of the author, appeared in 1878, Haug published a number of See also:works of considerable importance to the student of the literatures of See also:ancient India and See also:Persia. They include See also:Die Pehlewisprache and der Bundehesch (1854); Die Schrift and Sprache der zweiten Keilschriftgattung (1855); Die fiinf Gathas, edited, translated and expounded (1858–186o) ; an edition, with See also:translation and explanation, of the Aitareya See also:Brahmana of the Rigveda (Bombay, 1863), which is accounted his best See also:work in the See also:province of ancient See also:Indian literature; A Lecture on an See also:original Speech of Zoroaster (1865); An old Zend-See also:Pahlavi Glossary (1867) ; Uber den Charakter der Pehlewisprache (1869) ; Das 18. Kapitel See also:des Wendidad (1869); Uber das Ardai-Virgfnameh (1870) ; An old Pahlavi-Pazand Glossary (187o) ; and Vedische Rdtselfragen and Ratselsprache (1875).
For particulars of Haug's See also:life and work, see A. Bezzenberger,
Beitrage zur Kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen, vol. i. pp. 7o seq.
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