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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C
| Date transcribed | 2011-01-01 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Buhler | | | First Name(s) | Johann Georg | | | Year of Birth | 1837 | | | Year of Death | 1898 | | | Entry | Born July 19, 1837, at Borstel, in Hanover : son of a pastor : educated at Hanover and Gottingen : graduated in Oriental languages and Archaeology, 1858 : studied Sanskrit at Paris, London, Oxford : became an eminent Orientalist : Professor of Oriental Languages at the Elphinstone College, Bombay, 1863 : Superintendent of Sanskrit Studies, Poona, 1866 : Educational Inspector, N. Division, Bombay Presidency, 1868, 1872 : edited Sanskrit texts : several times deputed to collect Sanskrit texts : discovered over 5,000 MSS., which the Indian Government distributed among British Universities and Collections, and Indian Societies and Institutions : left India, 1880 : gave much attention to ancient inscriptions, doing important work as an epigraphist : wrote on Indian inscriptions : brought out, with Sir R. West (q.v.), a digest of Hindu Law : wrote a Sanskrit Primer, editions of Sanskrit works : published a Glossary of the oldest Prakrit dictionary : collaborated in the series of Sacred Books of the East : translated the Laws of Manu : became Professor of Indian Philology and Archaeology at the University of Vienna : edited an Encyclopaedia of Indo-Aryan Philology : contributed his Indische Paldographie, 1896 : was member of the Royal Asiatic and other learned Societies : drowned in Lake Constance, April 8, 1898. |
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