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THEODOR GOLDSTUCKER (1821-1872)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 219 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOLDSTUCKER (1821-1872)  , See also:German See also:Sanskrit See also:scholar, was See also:born of Jewish parents at See also:Konigsberg on the 18th of See also:January 1821, and, after attending the gymnasium of that See also:town, entered the university in 1836 as a student of Sanskrit . In 1838 he removed to See also:Bonn, and, after graduating at Konigsberg in 184o, proceeded to See also:Paris; in 1842 he edited a German See also:translation of the Prabodha Chandrodaya . From 1847 to 185o he resided at See also:Berlin, where his talents and scholarship were recognized by See also:Alexander von See also:Humboldt, but where his advanced See also:political views caused the authorities to regard him with suspicion . In the latter See also:year he removed to See also:London, where in 1852 he was appointed See also:professor of Sanskrit in University See also:College . He now worked on a new Sanskrit See also:dictionary, of which the first See also:instalment appeared in 1856 . In 1861 he published his See also:chief See also:work: Panini: his See also:place in Sanskrit Literature; and he was one of the founders and chief promoters of the Sanskrit See also:Text Society; he was also an active member of the Philological Society, and of other learned bodies . He died in London on the 6th of See also:March 1872 . As See also:Literary Remains some of his writings were published in two volumes (London, 1879), but his papers were See also:left to the See also:India See also:Office with the See also:request that they were not to be published until 1920 .

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