- Otto von Bohtlingk
Otto von Böhtlingk (
May 30 1815 -April 1 1904 ) was a GermanIndologist and Sanskrit scholar, born inSaint Petersburg ,Russia .Having studied
Oriental languages, particularly Arabic, Persian andSanskrit , at theUniversity of Saint Petersburg , he continued his studies in Germany, first inBerlin and then (1839-1842) inBonn . Returning to Saint Petersburg in 1842, he was attached to the Royal Academy of Sciences, and was elected an ordinary member of that society in 1855. In 1860 he was made Russian state councillor, and later privy councillor with a title of nobility. In 1868 he settled atJena , and in 1885 removed toLeipzig , where he resided until his death there.Bohtlingk was one of the most distinguished scholars of the nineteenth century, and his works are of pre-eminent value in the field of Indian and comparative
philology . His first great work was an edition of Panini's Grammatik IAST|Aṣṭādhyāyī , with a German commentary. (Bonn, 1839-1840).This book Bohtlingk again took up forty-seven years later, when he republished it with a complete translation under the title "Panini's Grammatik mit Übersetzung" (Leipzig, 1887). The earlier edition was followed by:
*"Vopadeva s Grammatik" (Saint Petersburg, 1847)
*"Über die Sprache der Jakuten" (Saint Petersburg, 1851)
*"Indische Sprache" (2nd ed. in 3 parts, Saint Petersburg, 1870-1873, to which an index was published by Blau, Leipzig, 1893)
*a critical examination and translation of "Chandogya -upanishad " (Saint Petersburg, 1889)
*a translation of "Brihad-Aranyaka -upanishad " (Saint Petersburg, 1889)In addition to these he published several smaller treatises, notably one onVedic accent , "Über den Accent im Sanskrit" (1843).But his magnum opus is his great Sanskrit dictionary, "Sanskrit-Wörterbuch" (7 vols., Saint Petersburg, 1853-1875; new ed. 7 vols, Saint Petersburg, 1879-1889), which with the assistance of his two friends,
Rudolf Roth (d. 1895) andAlbrecht Weber (b. 1825), was completed in twenty-three years.Bibliography
*with Rudolph Roth, "Sanskrit-Wörterbuch"
Saint Petersburg 1855-1875.
*"Sanskrit-Wörterbuch In kürzerer Fassung" 1879-1889, repring Buske Verlag, 1998, 2003, ISBN 3-87548-199-2
*"Panini's Grammatik" 1887, reprint 1998 ISBN 3-87548-198-4
*"Indische Sprüche" 3 volumes, Saint Petersburg, Akad. d. Wissenschaften, 1863-65.
*"Sanskrit-Chrestomathie" reprint 1967, ISBN B0000BUGAEReferences
*1911
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