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Born August 12, 1801 • Paris • France
Died May 28, 1852 (aged 50) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study Buddhism • Sanskrit language • Zoroastrianism
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Ahura Mazdā
Zarathushtra
Iranian prophet
Xuanzang
Xuanzang
Buddhist monk
Ram Mohan Roy
Ram Mohan Roy
Indian religious leader
Faxian
Chinese Buddhist monk
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Ardashīr I, coin, 3rd century; in the British Museum
Ardashīr I
Sāsānian king
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Grassmann, Hermann Günther
Hermann Günther Grassmann
German mathematician
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
R.C. Zaehner
British historian
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Winthrop Sargeant
American music critic
William Dwight Whitney
American linguist
Otto von Böhtlingk
Russian linguist
Wackernagel, Jacob
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist
Kumarajiva
Buddhist scholar
Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Delbrück
German linguist
Charles Rockwell Lanman
American scholar