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George Frederick William Thibaut
CIE
(March 20, 1848 ? 1914) was a German
Indologist
notable for his contributions to the understanding of
ancient Indian
mathematics
and
astronomy
.
Life
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Thibaut was born in
Germany
, worked briefly in
England
, and then in 1875, was appointed Professor at the
Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi
[1]
in northern India. From 1888 to 1895, he was professor at
Muir Central College
[2]
in
Allahabad
.
On 6 November 2014, in its column "100 Years Ago"
The Statesman
reprinted the following obituary on the late Dr. Thibaut:
The death is reported at Heidelberg Hospital, Germany of Dr George Thibaut, C.I.E., Ph.D., D.Sc., who recently retired from the Education Service as Registrar of the Calcutta University. Dr. Thibaut who took part in
Franco-German War of 1870
as a noncommissioned officer joined the Muir Central College, Allahabad some 22 years ago as Professor of Philosophy. He rose to be the Principal of the College and was appointed Registrar of the Allahabad University, afterwards being transferred to Calcutta. Besides being a well-known student of philosophy Eastern and Western, the late Dr. Thibaut was an eminent Sanskrit scholar.
He was appointed CIE in the
1906 New Year Honours
.
Works
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Between 1875 and 1878 Thibaut published a detailed essay on the
?ulba s?tras
, together with a translation of the
Baudh?yana ?ulba s?tra
; he later translated the
Panca Siddh?ntik?
which he co-edited with Pandit
Sudhakar Dwivedi
(the latter added a Sanskrit commentary). He also edited and translated the following volumes in
Max Muller
's
Sacred Books of the East
:
- Vol. 34,
The Vedanta-Sutras
, vol. 1 of 3, with the commentary of
Sankaracharya
, part 1 of 2. Adhyaya I?II (Pada I?II). (1890)
- Vol. 38,
The Vedanta-Sutras
, vol. 2 of 3, with the commentary of Sankaracharya, part 1 of 2. Adhyaya II (Pada III?IV)?IV. (1896)
It was one of the earliest translation of the
Brahma Sutras
along with the work of
Paul Deussen
.
[3]
- Vol. 48,
The Vedanta-Sutras
, vol. 3 of 3, with the commentary of
Ramanuja
. (1904)
Thibaut contributed a number of Sanskrit manuscripts to the Department of Oriental Collections,
Bodleian Library
,
University of Oxford
, where they are archived today.
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