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Date transcribed	2011-05-01
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	Lassen
	First Name(s)	Christian L
	Year of Birth	1800
	Year of Death	1876
	Entry	A Norwegian: born at Bergen, Oct. 22, 1800 : son of Nicolai C. V. Lassen : educated at Bergen, Christiania, Heidelberg, 1822, and Bonn : with a Government pension went to London and Paris : with Burnouf, published at Paris, his Essai sur le Pali, 1826 : wrote on the Panjab, or Pentapotamia Indica, 1827 : edited the Hitopadesa, with Schlegel, 1829 : they founded the critical and historical school of Sanskrit philology in Germany : Lassen was appointed Professor of Sanskrit at Bonn : founded and edited, 1837-50, the periodical Zeitschrift fiir die Kunde des Morgenlandes : published in it his ""Beitrage zur Kunde des Indischen Alterthums aus dem Mahabharata"

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