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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  Von Roth    
First Name(s)  Rudolph    
Birth Year  1821    
Death Year  1895    
Entry  Born April 3, 1821, at Stuttgart : educated at Tubingen under Heinrich Ewald : under Heinrich took the degree of Ph. D. : studied at Paris under Burnouf : and in England, working at Vedic and Zend MSS. at the India House and the Bodleian : at Tubingen, 1846, published treatises on the Literature and History of the Vedas : in 1848 Extraordinary, and in 1856 Ordinary Professor, and Chief of the University Library : collaborating with Bohtlingk (q.v.) he dealt with the Vedic period in the Sanskrit Dictionary of the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg, 1855-75 : he was the real founder of Vedic philology : edited the Atharva Veda : catalogued the Indian MSS. in the University Library of Tubingen, 1865 : contributed largely to scientific Journals, chiefly articles on the Vedas : wrote also on Indian medicine, and on the Avesta, and lectured on the history of religions : ennobled by the King of Wurtemburg for his Oriental scholarship : died at Tubingen, June 23, 1895     
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