MARTIN

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• MARTIN HAUG (1827–1876)

HAUG (1827–1876)  , German Orientalist, was born at Ostdorf near Balingen, Wurttemberg, on the 30th of January 1827 . He became a pupil in the gymnasium at Stuttgart at a comparatively late age, and in 1848 he entered the university of Tubingen, where he studied Oriental languages, especially Sanskrit . He afterwards attended lectures in Gottingen, and in 18J4 settled as Privatdozent at Bonn . In 1856 he removed to Heidelberg, where he assisted Bunsen in his literary under-takings; and in 1859 he accepted an invitation to India, where he became superintendent of Sanskrit studies and professor of Sanskrit in Poona . Here his acquaintance with the Zend language and literature afforded him excellent opportunities for extending his knowledge of this branch of literature . The result of his researches was a volume of Essays on the sacred language, writings and religion of the Parsees (Bombay, 1862) . Having returned to Stuttgart in 1866, he was called to Munich as professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in 1868 . He died on the 3rd of June 1876 . Besides the Essays on the Parsees, of which a new edition, by E . W . West, greatly enriched from the posthumous papers of the author, appeared in 1878, Haug published a number of works of considerable importance to the student of the literatures of ancient India and Persia . They include Die Pehlewisprache and der Bundehesch (1854); Die Schrift and Sprache der zweiten Keilschriftgattung (1855); Die fiinf Gathas, edited, translated and expounded (1858–186o) ; an edition, with translation and explanation, of the Aitareya Brahmana of the Rigveda (Bombay, 1863), which is accounted his best work in the province of ancient Indian literature; A Lecture on an original Speech of Zoroaster (1865); An old Zend-Pahlavi Glossary (1867) ; Uber den Charakter der Pehlewisprache (1869) ; Das 18 .

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des Wendidad (1869); Uber das Ardai-Virgfnameh (1870) ; An old Pahlavi-Pazand Glossary (187o) ; and Vedische Rdtselfragen and Ratselsprache (1875) . For particulars of Haug's life and work, see A . Bezzenberger, Beitrage zur Kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen, vol. i. pp . 7o seq .