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KERN, JAN HENDRIK (1833– )

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KERN, See also:JAN HENDRIK (1833– ) , Dutch Orientalist, was See also:born in See also:Java of Dutch parents on the 6th of See also:April 1833. He studied at See also:Utrecht, See also:Leiden and See also:Berlin, where he was a See also:pupil of the See also:Sanskrit See also:scholar, Albrecht See also:Weber. After some years spent as See also:professor of See also:Greek at Maestricht, he became professor of Sanskrit at See also:Benares in 1863, and in 1865 at Leiden. His studies included the See also:Malay See also:languages as well as Sanskrit. His See also:chief See also:work is Geschiedenis See also:van het Buddhisme in Indie (See also:Haarlem, 2 vols., 1881–1883); in See also:English he wrote a See also:translation (See also:Oxford, 1884) of the Saddharma Pundarika and a See also:Manual of See also:Indian See also:Buddhism (See also:Strassburg, 1896) for Biihler Kielhorn's Grundriss der indoarischen Philologie.

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