JAN HENDRIK

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• JAN HENDRIK KERN (1833– )

KERN (1833– )  , Dutch Orientalist, was born in Java of Dutch parents on the 6th of April 1833 . He studied at Utrecht, Leiden and Berlin, where he was a pupil of the Sanskrit scholar, Albrecht Weber . After some years spent as professor of Greek at Maestricht, he became professor of Sanskrit at Benares in 1863, and in 1865 at Leiden . His studies included the Malay languages as well as Sanskrit . His chief work is Geschiedenis van het Buddhisme in Indie (Haarlem, 2 vols., 1881–1883); in English he wrote a translation (Oxford, 1884) of the Saddharma Pundarika and a Manual of Indian Buddhism (Strassburg, 1896) for Biihler Kielhorn's Grundriss der indoarischen Philologie .