- Theodor Aufrecht
Simon Theodor Aufrecht (
January 7 ,1822 –April 3 ,1907 ) was a Germanindologist .Aufrecht was born in
Leschnitz ,Prussian Silesia , and was educated in Berlin, graduating in 1847. In 1852 he moved to Oxford and studied at theBodleian Library . From 1862 until 1875 he was professor at theUniversity of Edinburgh inScotland , where he occupied the newly-established chair ofSanskrit .In 1875 Aufrecht was appointed to the chair of indology at the
University of Bonn , and remained at that post until 1889. Between 1891 and 1903, he published a three volume alphabetical catalogue of allSanskrit manuscript collections known at the time, in a work titled, "Catalogus Catalogorum". This was the first such attempt to catalogue all Indian manuscripts; beginning in 1935, theUniversity of Madras began working on an updated catalogue called the "New Catalogus Catalogorum", a work that is still in progress.Aufrecht died in Bonn.
Bibliography
* "Die Hymnen des Rigveda", 1877.
* "Catalogus Catalogorum", 3 volumes, 1891, 1896 and 1903.External links
* [http://www.indologie.uni-bonn.de/english/start.htm The Bonn School of German Indology]
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