George Thibaut
George Frederick William Thibaut , actually Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Thibaut, (* March 20, 1848 , † 1914 ) was a German-British Indologist .
Thibaut came from Germany and from 1871 was assistant to the Indologist Friedrich Max Müller in England (Oxford). He was in India from 1875 professor at Benares Hindu College (Government Sanskrit College, Benares or Varanasi ), from 1879 to 1888 as director, and from 1888 to 1895 at Muir College in Allahabad .
In Benares (Varanasi), an old center of Indian learning, he not only worked with local scholars, but was also visited by Richard von Garbe , for example .
He wrote a critical edition of the Rigveda and the Brahma Sutra ( Vedanta Sutras) with the commentaries by Shankara and Ramanuja (1890, 1896, 1904, 3 volumes in the Sacred Books of the East by Müller, Oxford University Press). He also wrote about mathematics and astronomy in India, for example from 1875 to 1877 he published the Baudhayana Sulbasutra with English translation and commentary, one of the oldest documents on Indian mathematics, and in 1888 he gave the astronomical collection Pancha-Siddhantika of Varahamihira (6th century) Century) with the librarian and later math and astrology teacher at the Government Sanskrit College Sudhakara Dvivedi (1855-1910).
He founded the magazine Pundit , in which old Sanskrit texts and translations were published.
After Radha Charan Gupta , he played the most important role among scholars in India in the last quarter of the 19th century in the history of mathematics .
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- Jessica Frazier (Ed.) Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies, Continuum 2011, p. 54
- Douglas McGetchen Indology, Indomania and Orientalism , Rosemont Publ. 2009, p. 107
Fonts
- Astronomy, astrology and mathematics, outline of Indo-Aryan philology and antiquity , Volume 3, Issue 9, Strasbourg, Trübner, 1899, archive
Editing and commentary:
- Vedanta Sutras, Volume 1, Project Gutenberg , Archives
- Vedanta Sutras, Volume 2, Archives
- Vedanta Sutras, Volume 3, Project Gutenberg and at Archive
- Editor with Sudhakara Dvivedi: The Panchasiddhantika of Varaha Mihira, Chowkhamba Sanskrit Studies 68, Varanasi, 2nd edition 1968 (first 1888)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ As a thank you for his hospitality, Thibaut dedicated his book The Samkhya Philosophy , 1894
- ^ The translations by Paul Deussen appeared independently in 1887
- ^ Editions of the works of Varahamihira
- ↑ played the most significant role among scholars in India during the last quarter of the 19th century as far as historical writing is concerned , Article India in Joseph Dauben , Christoph Scriba (Ed.) Writing the history of mathematics , Birkhäuser Verlag, 2002, p 311
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thibaut, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thibaut, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-British Indologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1848 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1914 |