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Theodor Aufrecht (born January 7, 1822 in Leschnitz , Upper Silesia , † April 3, 1907 in Bonn ) was a German Indologist and Sanskritist .
Life
Aufrecht worked at the Bodleian Library in Oxford from 1852 and was Regius Professor of Sanskrit for Sanskrit and comparative linguistic research from 1861 to 1875 at the University of Edinburgh and from 1875 to 1889 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . He published the Catalogus Catalogorum , in which all known Sanskrit texts were indexed.
In 1864 he became a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and in 1869 a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 1902 he was also a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
After his death he bequeathed his extensive private library, which he had initially given to his friend and university colleague Eugen Prym , to the library of Bonn University at his instigation.
literature
- Willibald Kirfel: Upright, Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 442 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Upright, Theodor. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , pp. 259-261.
Web links
- Literature by and about Theodor Aufrecht in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Theodor upright. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, accessed on February 11, 2015 .
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 29.
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SURNAME | Upright, Theodor |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indologist and Sanskritist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1822 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leschnitz , Upper Silesia |
DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1907 |
Place of death | Bonn |