[INDOLOGY] On the occasion of Otto Böhtlingk's recent birthday bicentenary

[Jan E.M. Houben]

Dear All,
Occupied in a fascinating seminar in Paris on the beginnings of
professional sanskrit studies in Europe (« Antoine-Léonard de Chézy et les
débuts des études sanskrites en Europe, 1800-1850 »), I was not yet able to
contribute my hommage to Otto Böhtlingk, whose birthday bicentenary was
yesterday (11 June 1815 acc. to Gregorian calendar). Important remarks on
this occasion have circulated yesterday on the "IndoloGIE" forum. I'd like
to especially highlight his foundational work in the domains of modern
Sanskrit lexicography, Vedic studies and grammar (vyākrti = vyākaraṇa).

शब्दकोशकृतां श्रेष्ठो  वेदव्याकृतिवित्तमः ।

मेन्देलेयेव्-हिताधाता  यस्तस्मै मम वन्दनम् ॥
About the relationship Böhtlingk - Mendeleev we may hear more at the
Linguistics Section at the upcoming World Sanskrit Conference in Bangkok.
jan  houben







*Jan E.M. HOUBEN*

Directeur d’Études

Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite

*École Pratique des Hautes Études*

*Sciences historiques et philologiques *

54, rue Saint-Jacques

CS 20525 – 75005 Paris

johannes.houben at ephe.sorbonne.fr

https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben

www.ephe.fr


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