See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

CHRISTIAN See also:

• CHRISTIAN LASSEN (1800-1876)
• LASSEN, EDUARD (1830-19o4)

LASSEN (1800-1876)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German orientalist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 22nd of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1800, at See also:

• BERGEN

Bergen in See also:

• NORWAY
• NORWAY (Norge)

Norway . Having received his earliest university See also:

• EDUCATION

education at See also:

• CHRISTIANIA (officially KRISTIANIA)

Christiania, he went to See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, and continued his studies at See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg and See also:

• BONN

Bonn . In the latter university See also:

• LASSEN, CHRISTIAN (1800-1876)
• LASSEN, EDUARD (1830-19o4)

Lassen acquired a See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound knowledge of See also:

• SANSKRIT

Sanskrit . He next spent three years in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris and See also:

• LONDON

London, engaged in copying and collating See also:

• MSS

MSS., and See also:

• COLLECTING

collecting materials for future See also:

• RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research, especially in reference to the See also:

• HINDU

Hindu See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama and See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy . During this See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period he published, jointly with E . See also:

• BURNOUF, EUGENE (1801—1852)

Burnouf, his first See also:

• WORK

work, Essai sur le Pdli (Paris, 1826) . On his return to Bonn he studied Arabic, and took the degree of Ph.D., his dissertation discussing the Arabic notices of the See also:

• GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

geography of the See also:

• PUNJAB

Punjab (Commentatio geographica atque historica de Pentapotamia Indica, Bonn, 1827) . Soon after he was admitted Privatdozent, and in 183o was appointed extraordinary and in 184o See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of Old See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language and literature . In spite of a tempting offer from See also:

• COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen, in 1841, Lassen remained faithful to the university of his See also:

• ADOPTION (Lat. adoptio, for adoptalio, from adoptare, to choose for oneself)

adoption to the end of his See also:

• LIFE

life . He died at Bonn on the 8th of May 1876, having been affected with almost See also:

• TOTAL

total See also:

• BLINDNESS

blindness for many years . As See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as 1864 he was relieved of the See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty of lecturing . In 1829-1831 he brought out, in See also:

• CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August W. von See also:

• SCHLEGEL, AUGUST WILHELM VON (1767-1845)
• SCHLEGEL, JOHANN ELIAS (1719-1749)
• SCHLEGEL, KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH VON (1772-1829)

Schlegel, a See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical annotated edition of the Hitopadefa .

The See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of this edition marks the starting-point of the critical study of Sanskrit literature . At the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time Lassen assisted von Schlegel in editing and translating the first two cantos of the epic Ramayana (1829–1838) . In 1832 he brought out the See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text of the first See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of Bhavabhuti's drama, Malatimadhava, and a See also:

• COMPLETE

complete edition, with a Latin See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation, of the Sankhya-karika . In 1837 followed his edition and translation of Jayadeva's charming lyrical drama, Gitagovinda and his Institutiones linguae Pracriticae . His Anthologia Sanscritica, which came out the following See also:

• YEAR

year (new ed. by Johann Gildemeister, 1868), contained several hitherto unpublished texts, and did much to stimulate the study of Sanskrit in German See also:

• UNIVERSITIES

universities . In 1846 Lassen brought out an improved edition of Schlegel's text and translation of the " Bhagavadgita." He did not confine himself to the study of Indian See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages, but acted likewise as a scientific See also:

• PIONEER

pioneer in other See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

fields of philological inquiry . In his Beitrage zur Deutung der Eugubinischen Tafeln (1833) he prepared the way for the correct See also:

• INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation of the Umbrian See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions; and the Zeitschrift See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die Kunde See also:

• DES

des Morgenlandes (7 vols., 1837-185o), started and largely conducted by him, contains, among other valuable papers from his See also:

• PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen, grammatical sketches of the Beluchi and See also:

• BRAHUI

Brahui languages, and an See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay on the Lycian inscriptions . Soon after the appearance of Burnouf's Commentaire sur le Yacna (1833), Lassen also directed his See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to the Zend, and to Iranian studies generally; and in Die altpersischen Keilinschriften von See also:

• PERSEPOLIS

Persepolis (1836) he first made known the true See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of the Old See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian See also:

• CUNEIFORM (from Lat. cuneus, a wedge)

cuneiform inscriptions, thereby anticipating, by one See also:

• MONTH
• MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

month, Burnouf's Memoire on the same subject, while See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry See also:

• RAWLINSON, GEORGE (1812-1902)
• RAWLINSON, RICHARD (169o-1755)
• RAWLINSON, SIR HENRY CRESWICKE (1810—1895)
• RAWLINSON, SIR ROBERT (1810—1898)

Rawlinson's famous memoir on the See also:

• BEHISTUN

Behistun inscription, though See also:

• DRAWN

drawn up in See also:

• PERSIA

Persia, independently of contemporaneous See also:

• EUROPEAN

European research, at about the same time, did not reach the Royal See also:

• ASIATIC

Asiatic Society until three years later . Subsequently Lassen published, in the See also:

• SIXTH

sixth See also:

• VOLUME

volume of his See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

journal (1845), a collection of all the Old Persian cuneiform inscriptions known up to that date . He also was the first See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar in See also:

• EUROPE

Europe who took up, with See also:

• SIGNAL

signal success, the decipherment of the newly-discovered Bactrian coins, which .furnished him the materials for Zur Geschichte der griechischen und indo-skythischen Konige in Bakterien, See also:

• KABUL

Kabul, und Indien (1838) . He contemplated bringing out a critical edition of the Vendidad; but, after See also:

• PUBLISHING

publishing the first five fargards (1852), he See also:

• FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt that his whole energies were required for the successful accomplishment of the See also:

• GREAT

great undertaking of his life—his Indische Altertumskunde . In this work—completed in four volumes, published respectively in 1847 (2nd ed., 1867), 1849 (2nd ed., 1874), 1858 and 1861—which forms one of the greatest monuments of untiring See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry and critical scholarship, everything that could be gathered from native and See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign See also:

• SOURCES

sources, relative to the See also:

• POLITICAL

political, social and intellectual development of See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, from the earliest times down to the See also:

• MAHOMMEDAN

Mahommedan invasion, was worked up by him into a connected See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account .