Lorenz Franz Kielhorn
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1840 – 1908
Who was Lorenz Franz Kielhorn?
Lorenz Franz Kielhorn was a German Indologist.
Kielhorn worked in Oxford in the period 1862-65 with Friedrich Max Müller in order to publish the first edition of Rigveda. From 1866 to 1881 he was a professor of Sanskrit at Deccan College in Pune, and after 1882 in Göttingen.
Kielhorn's results from the handling of rich material that he himself partially collected and partially got sent, is mainly explained in Indian antiquary and Epigraphia indica. After the death of Georg Bühler, he edited the Grundriss der indoarischen Philologie. Together with Bühler, Kielhorn had initiated the series Bombay Sanskrit series
He received the honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Glasgow in June 1901.
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