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JAN HENDRIK KERN (1833– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 757 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAN HENDRIK KERN (1833– )  , Dutch Orientalist, was born in
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Java of Dutch parents on the 6th of
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April 1833 . He studied at Utrecht,
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Leiden and Berlin, where he was a pupil of the
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Sanskrit scholar, Albrecht Weber . After some years spent as professor of Greek at Maestricht, he became professor of Sanskrit at
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Benares in 1863, and in 1865 at Leiden . His studies included the
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Malay
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languages as well as Sanskrit . His chief
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work is Geschiedenis
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van het Buddhisme in Indie (
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Haarlem, 2 vols., 1881–1883); in
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English he wrote a
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translation (Oxford, 1884) of the Saddharma Pundarika and a
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Manual of
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Indian
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Buddhism (Strassburg, 1896) for Biihler Kielhorn's Grundriss der indoarischen Philologie .

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