Roth

Roth

Dr Roth
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Residence	Heidelberg
Occupation	academic
Society Membership membership ESL Hon. Fellow left 1871.12.04 death noted elected_ESL 1855.07.11

Notes

House Notes

Professor of Sanskrit

1871.12.04 death noted

Notes From Elsewhere

might be Rudolph von Roth 'whose chief work is a monumental Sanskrit dictionary' - but he appears to have died in 1895 according to Wikipaedia - and our man is pronounced dead in 1871

Dr Eduard Roth, ord. off. Professor der Philosophe a. d. Universitat zu Heidelberg .. Dr. E. Roth's" learned and comprehensive history of the origin and progress of Philosophy,

Cultural philosopher Eduard M. Roth (1807-1858). In Paris, Roth had studied science with Dominique Francois Jean Arago, Jean Baptist Biot, Pierre Louis Dulong and Jean-Baptiste Andre Dumas, as well as oriental languages. He began lecturing at Heidelberg in 1840, and became professor of philosophy and Sanskrit there in 1850. He believed that the roots of modern knowledge could be traced back to ancient Egypt and to the teachings of Zoroaster [Writing the history of mathematics]. Sounds like this could be the one, though died earlier than noted