Gustav Salomon Oppert

Gustav Salomon Oppert (born July 30, 1836 in Hamburg ; died March 16, 1908 in Berlin ) was a German Indologist and Orientalist . He was the younger brother of the businessman and ethnologist Ernst Jakob Oppert (1832–1903) and the orientalist Jules Oppert .

Life

Oppert studied languages, literature, philosophy and history at the universities of Bonn, Leipzig, Berlin and Halle. From 1860 he worked in the Bodleian Library in Oxford . From 1872 to 1893 he was professor of Sanskrit at the Presidency College in Madras , where he also edited the Madras Journal of Literature and Science between 1878 and 1882; then he traveled to parts of Asia and America. From 1895 he was a private lecturer for non-Aryan languages ​​in India at the Berlin University .

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Like his brother Jules, Gustav Oppert campaigned for various Jewish issues. Since 1896 he was the curator of the College for the Science of Judaism , to which he left 300,000 marks for the creation of a chair for Semitic languages.

He is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

Fonts (selection)

• The presbyter Johannes in legend and history: a contribution to peoples and church history and to heroic poetry of the Middle Ages. Julius Springer's publishing house, Berlin 1870 ( at Internet Archive )
• On the original inhabitants of Bharatavarsa or India. Archibald Constable & Co., Westminster; Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1893 ( at Internet Archive )

literature

• German Review for Geography and Statistics, Volume 30, A. Hartleben, 1908
• Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 4. Chernivtsi 1927, p. 583
• Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Vol. 12, Col. 1434
• Oppert, Gustav Salomon. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 17: Meid – Phil. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-22697-7 , pp. 389-391.

Web links

• Isidore Singer, Louis H. Gray:  Oppert, Gustav Salomon. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.