Gustav Oppert
Gustav Oppert
| Dr Gustav Oppert | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1836 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1908 | ||||||||||
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The Library Windsor Castle 5 Adelaide Square Windsor Madras [1869] c/o Emil Oppert, 15 Porchester Terrace, W [1885] Madras Club, Madras [1888] Presidency College, Madras [1894] Bulowstrasse 55, Berlin [1897] | ||||||||||
| Occupation | academic | ||||||||||
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Prof of Sanscrit
death noted in the report of the council for 1908: Another fellow of very long standing was Professor G. Oppert, who joined the Ethnological Society in 1869, and the Anthropological Institute on its foundation. He was one of the leading authorities on Hebrew, Sanskrit, and Indian languages, anid had occupied professorial chairs at the Universities both of Madras and Berlin.
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Gustav Solomon Oppert, brother of Julius Oppert, German Indologist and Sanskritist, born 30 July 1836 in Hamburg, died in 1908 in Berlin. He was a professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, Presidency College, Madras, a Telugu translator to government, and a curator in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library. He was a professor in Madras from 1872 to 1893. He was also editor of the Madras Journal of Literature and Science from 1878 to 1882. After traveling in north India from 1893 to 1894, he returned to Europe in 1894.
Born Hamburg. Authority on Hebrew, Sanskrit and Indian languages. Held chairs at universities of Berlin and Madras. Numerous publications. When he joined the Ethnological Society of London his address was Windsor. In 1860 he was assistant librarian at the Bodleian Library and then the assistant librarian to Queen Victoria at Windsor. He left the UK in 1872
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His significant writings are On the classification of languages (1879), On the weapons, army, organization and Political Maxims of the ancient Hindoos (1880), Lists of Sanskrit manuscripts in Southern India (2 Vol. 1880-1885), Contributions to the history of Southern India (1882), and On the original inhabitants of Bharatavarsha of India (1893).
