- Wilhelm Geiger
Wilhelm Ludwig Geiger (1856-1943) was a German Orientalist, in the fields of Indian and Iranian languages. He was known as a specialist in
Pali and the languages of theMaldives .Life
He travelled to
Ceylon in 1895 to study the language [Alfred Jeyaratnam Wilson (1988), "The Break-up of Sri Lanka: the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict", p. 29; [http://www.dailynews.lk/2004/07/17/fea01.html] ] . He appeared on a stamp inSri Lanka , in 1989 [ [http://www.goethe.de/ins/lk/prj/jub/chr/de2524355.htm Goethe-Institut 50-jähriges Jubiläum des Goethe-Instituts Sri Lanka - Andere über uns ] ] .The physicist
Hans Geiger , inventor of theGeiger counter , was his son.Works
*"A Grammar of the Sinhalese Language"
*"Mahavamsa : the great chronicle of Ceylon", translation ( [http://lakdiva.org/culavamsa/ scan] )
*"Pali Literature and Language"; revised byK. R. Norman under the title "A Pali Grammar"
*"Ceylon. Tagebuchblätter und Reiseerinnerungen."
*"Maldivian Linguistic Studies." Colombo 1919.
*"Grundriss der iranischen Philologie", withErnst Kuhn References
*Heinz Bechert (1976), "Wilhelm Geiger: His Life and Works"
Notes
External links
* [http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/v10f4/v10f440.html Biography]
* [http://www.herenow4u.de/Pages/eng/Glossary/GeigerWilhelm.htm Biography]
* [http://www.mahavamsa.org/mahawanso/mahavamsa_chapters.html English translation of Mahavamsa]
* [http://lakdiva.org/culavamsa/vol_0.html Original English translation of the Mahawamsa, with Geiger's introduction and notes]
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