Oldenberg, H.
| English Phonetics | Hermann Oldenberg |
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| Sort Name | Oldenberg, Hermann |
| Birth: | 1854 |
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| Death: | 1920 |
| Place of birth: | Hamburg |
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Biographical Information
Hermann Oldenberg (31 October 1854 – 18 March 1920) was a German scholar of Indology, and Professor at Kiel (1898) and Göttingen (1908).
Oldenberg was born in Hamburg. His 1881 study on Buddhism, entitled Buddha: Sein Leben, seine Lehre, seine Gemeinde, based on Pāli texts, popularized Buddhism and has remained continuously in print since its first publication. With T. W. Rhys Davids, he edited and translated into English three volumes of Theravada Vinaya texts, two volumes of the (Vedic) Grhyasutras and two volumes of Vedic hymns on his own account, in the monumental Sacred Books of the East series edited by Max Müller. With his Prolegomena (1888), Oldenberg laid the groundwork to the philological study of the Rigveda.
In 1919 he became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died in Göttingen. (Source Accessed Aug 24, 2023)
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