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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  Bopp    
First Name(s)  Francis    
Year of Birth  1791    
Year of Death  1867    
Entry  Born at Mentz, Sep. 14, 1791 : educated at Aschaffenburg, under Windischmann, the celebrated Oriental scholar : went to Paris, 1812, for 5 years : chiefly studied Sanskrit : settled in Gottingen : became in 1821 Extraordinary, and in 1825 Ordinary Professor of Oriental Literature and General Philology at Berlin University, till his death : a prominent Member of the Royal Society at Berlin : wrote his Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic Languages in the Annals of Oriental Literature, 1820 : greatly encouraged and facilitated the study of Sanskrit : his Sanskrit Grammar passed through several editions, 1827-63 : an original foreign member of the R.A.S. from June 7, 1823 : his Comparative Grammar was translated into English, 1845-50 : he died Oct. 23, 1867.     
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