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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I

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Date transcribed2011-04-00
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.

Surnames  Gildemeister    
First Name(s)  Johannes Gustav    
Year of Birth  1812    
Year of Death  1890    
Entry  Born July 20, 18 12, at Klein Siemen in Mecklenburg : studied theology and Oriental languages at Gottingen and Bonn : Sanskrit under Schlegel and Lassen : Privat-docent at Bonn, 1839, for Oriental languages and literature : Extraordinary Professor at Bonn, 1844 : Professor, in 1845, of theology and Oriental literature at the University of Marburg ; also Librarian there for ten years: Professor of Oriental languages and literature at Bonn, 1859, retaining this post till his death, on March n, 1890. A controversialist as well as a scholar : of wide and varied interests and learning: thorough and conscientious in all his work : a great teacher and noted librarian : yet has left no great monument of his industry behind him. Among his works on Indian subjects are : Die falsche Sanskrit-philologie, 1840 ; Bibliothecae Sanskritae specimen, 1847 ; a new edition of Lassen's Anthologia Sanskritica, 1865 ; one of the founders of the Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft.     
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