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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  Grunwedel    
First Name(s)  Albert    
Year of Birth  1856    
Entry  Born at Munich, July 31, 1856 : son of Karl Griinwedel, an artist : educated at the Max-Gymnasium at Munich, and later (1876-82) studied Archaeology, classical Philology, Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, at the Munich University : Dr. : chiefly known as a Tibetan scholar, and leading authority in the history of Indian (especially Buddhist) art : has been, since 1882, Assistant Director of the Royal Museums at Berlin, and is Director of the Asiatic Section of the Berlin Ethnographical Museum (1904) : Corresponding Member of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences at Munich (1900), and : of the Oriental Division of the Archaeological Society at St. Petersburg (1901) : his chief works are : Buddhistische Kunst in Indien, 1893, etc., translated into English in 1901 : his Lepcha-English Dictionary, compiled from General Mainwaring's MSS., 1898 : Mythologie des Buddhismus in Tibet und der Mongolei, 1900. His Report on his archaeological labours in Idikutsari (Turfan), 1905, is the result of his travels (1902-3) in Chinese Turkistan (Turfan) in the company of Dr. Huth.     
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