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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Aufrecht    
First Name(s)  Theodor    
Year of Birth  1822    
Entry  Born Jan. 7, 1822, at Leschnitz in Silesia : educated at the College of Oppeln : studied Sanskrit and Philology at Berlin, and later the ancient languages of Northern Europe : Privat-docent at Berlin University, 1850 : went to England, 1852, to study Sanskrit : Professor of Sanskrit and Philology at Edinburgh University, 1862 : Professor of Philology at Bonn, 1875-89 : now Professor of the Comparative Study of Languages at Bonn : Levi calls him the ""illustrious veteran of Indian studies"" : he is especially noted for his catalogues of Sanskrit MSS. : among his works may be mentioned : De accentu compositorum Sanskriticorum, 1847 : Halayudha's Abhidhanaratnamata, 1861 : Die Hymnen des Rigweda, 1877 : Bliiten aus Hindostan, 1873 : Das Aitareya Brahmana, 1879 : his catalogues of Sanskrit MSS., at the Bodleian Library (1859-64), and at Cambridge (1869) : Catalogus catalogorum, a register of Sanskrit works and authors, 1891-3 : and Katalog der Sanskrit Handschtiften der Universitdts-Bibliothek za Leipzig, 1901.     
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