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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Munk    
First Name(s)  Salomon    
Birth Year  1802    
Death Year  1867    
Entry  Born at Gross-Glogau, in Prussian Silesia, May 2, 1802 : of Jewish parentage, the son of a poor servant of the Synagogue : educated at the Rabbinical School of his town, afterwards at Berlin : in spite of great poverty, made his way at the latter University : went on to study Oriental languages at Bonn under Schlegel, Lassen, etc. : being, as a Jew, debarred from lecturing in a Prussian University, he removed to Paris in 1828, where he worked at Sanskrit, etc. : attached to the Bibliotheque Imperiale from 1838 : in 1840, travelled in Egypt : engaged in cataloguing Oriental MSS. for the Library until attacked by blindness in 1847 : bore the affliction bravely, even continuing to write, and accepting the appointment of Professor of Hebrew at the College de France : died in Paris, Feb. 6, 1867. Though chiefly known as a Hebrew and Arabic scholar, he also wrote on Indian subjects, as : Fragments de litterature Sanskrite, in the Temps, 1836 : Mahabharata, 1838 : a member of the Academie des Inscriptions.     
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