OTTO VON

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• OTTO VON BOHTLINGK (18'5—1004)

BOHTLINGK (18'5—1004)  German Sanskrit scholar, was born on the 3oth of May ('rth of June O.S.) 1815 at St Petersburg . Having studied( '833—1835)Oriental languages, particularly Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit, at the university of St Petersburg, he continued his studies in Germany, first in Berlin and then (1839—1842) in Bonn . Returning to St Peters-burg in 1842, he was attached to the Royal Academy of Sciences, and was elected an ordinary member of that society in 1855 . BOHUN 137 In 186o he was made " Russian state councillor," and later " privy councillor " with a title of nobility . In '868 he settled at Jena, and in '885 removed to Leipzig, where he resided until his death there on the 1st of April 1904 . Bohtlingk was one of the most distinguished scholars of the '9th 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 Acht Bucker grammatischer Regeln (Bonn, 1839—1840), which was in reality a criticism of Franz Bopp's philological methods . This book Bohtlingk again took up forty-seven years later, when he republished it with a complete translation under the title Paninis Grammatik mit Ubersetzung (Leipzig, '887) . The earlier edition was followed by Vopadevas Grammatik (St Peters-burg, 1847); Uber die Sprache der Jakuten (St Petersburg, '85') ; Indische Sprache (2nd ed. in 3 parts, St Petersburg, '870—1873, to which an index was published by Blau, Leipzig,' 893) ; a critical examination and translation of Chhandogya-upanishad (St Peters-burg, '889) and a translation of Brihadaranyaka-upanishad (St Petersburg, 1889) In addition to these he published several smaller treatises, notably one on the Sanskrit accents, Uber den Accent im Sanskrit (1843) . But his magnum opus is his great Sanskrit dictionary, Sanskrit-Worterbuch (7 vols., St Petersburg, 1853—1875; newed . 7 vols., St Petersburg, '879—1889), which with the assistance of his two friends, Rudolf Roth (1821—1895) and Albrecht Weber (b . 1825), was completed in twenty-three years .