[INDOLOGY] First use of 'Indology'

[Warner Belanger]

A quick Google Book search got a hit from 1855. Types of Mankind Or,
Ethnological Researches: Based Upon the Ancient ... by Josiah Clark Nott,
George Robins Gliddon, Louis Agassiz, William Usher, Henry Stuart
Patterson, page 633.
Genealogy of the South-Indian Gods: A Manual of the Mythology and Religion
...  By Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg from 1869 also got a hit, and it is worth
looking at it in Google Books so you can see Sir Monier Monier-Williams
bookplate.


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>wrote:

> The English Wikipedia entry <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indology> (15
> Feb 2013) points out the early German and Dutch usage of the term, but
> doesn't give dates.   The German Wikipedia entry<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indologie>is more detailed, but doesn't track the history of the term itself.
>
> The OED traces the word only to 1888:
>
>   /ɪnˈdɒlədʒɪ/
>  *Etymology:*  < Indo- comb. form1<http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/94667#eid517415>
>  + -logy comb. form <http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/109868#eid39107762>.
>   Thesaurus »
>
>   The study of Indian history, literature, philosophy, etc.
> 1888   *Trübner's Monthly List* Oct. 134   There is not a single branch
> of Indology—with, perhaps, the single exception of Vedic studies—which will
> not gain very considerably by its publication.
> 1895   *Atlantic Monthly* Mar. 399.
>  but notes that this entry was published in 1900 and hasn't been fully
> updated.
>
> I don't think anyone today calls themselves an "Indologian."  The OED
> entry for "Indologist" cites only from 1904:
> Indologist, n.
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> *Pronunciation:*  /ɪnˈdɒlədʒɪst/
>  *Etymology:*  < *Indolog-* (in Indology n.<http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/94705#eid521492>)
> + -ist suffix <http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/100224#eid40503395>.
>   Thesaurus »
>
>   A student of Indology.
> 1904   M. de Z. Wickremasinghe in *Epigraphia Zeylanica* I. i. p. vi,
> The thanks of all Indologists are due to the Ceylon Government.
> 1928   *Spectator* 7 Apr. 535/1   Indologists at once recognized the
> importance of this ample..collection of material for their studies.
> 1929   A. Stein *On Alexander's Track to Indus* xii. 89   M. Sylvain
> Lévi, the eminent French Indologist.
> 1957   P. Worsley *Trumpet shall Sound* 224   The explanation of this
> absence of millenarism from Hindu India..can only be attempted by an
> Indologist.
> 1971   *Illustr. Weekly India* 11 Apr. 35/1   Hermann Jacobi (1850–1937)
> is remembered with great reverence by indologists as a pioneer in the field
> of Jain and Prakrit studies.
>
> (Hide quotations) <http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/94704#>
>
> Best,
>
>
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> Dr Dominik Wujastyk
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> On 15 February 2013 14:55, Suresh Kolichala <suresh.kolichala at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Don't know if this had been discussed earlier, but could someone point me
>> to the literature discussing the first use of the term 'indology'?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Suresh.
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