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German orientalist
Haug
Martin Haug
(30 January 1827 ? 3 June 1876) was a German
orientalist
.
Biography
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Haug was born at
Ostdorf
(today a part of
Balingen
),
Wurttemberg
. He became a pupil in the
gymnasium
at
Stuttgart
at a comparatively late age, and in 1848 he entered the
Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen
, where he studied oriental languages, especially
Sanskrit
. He afterwards attended lectures at the
Georg-August University of Gottingen
, and in 1854 settled as
Privatdozent
at the
University of Bonn
. In 1856 he moved to the
University of Heidelberg
, where he assisted
Bunsen
in his literary undertakings.
In 1859 he accepted an invitation to
India
, where he became superintendent of Sanskrit studies and professor of Sanskrit in
Poona
. Here his acquaintance with the
Zend language
and literature afforded him excellent opportunities for extending his knowledge of this branch of literature. Having returned to Stuttgart in 1866, he was called to
Munich
as professor of Sanskrit and
comparative philology
in 1868.
It was Dr. Haug who originally outlined the structure of the popular Sanskrit introductory books by
Bhandarkar
which was used throughout India in the early 20th century.
Haug died in
Bad Ragaz
at the age of 49.
Works
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The result of his researches in Poona was the volume
Essays on the sacred language, writings and religion of the Parsees
(Bombay, 1862), of which a new edition, by
E. W. West
, greatly enriched from the
posthumous papers
of the author, appeared in 1878.
Haug published a number of other works of considerable importance to the student of the literatures of ancient
India
and
Persia
. They include:
- Die Pehlewisprache und der Bundehesch
(1854)
- Die Schrift und Sprache der zweiten Keilschriftgattung
(1855)
- Die funf Gathas
, edited, translated and expounded (1858?1860)
- an edition, with translation and explanation, of the
Aitareya Brahnsana
of the
Rigveda
(Bombay, 1863), which is accounted his best work in the province of ancient Indian literature
- A Lecture on an original Speech of
Zoroaster
(1865)
- An old Zend-Pahlavi Glossery
(1867)
- Uber den Charakter der Pehlewisprache
(1869)
- Das 18. Kapitel des Wendidad
(1869)
- Uber das Ardai-Virafnameh
(1870)
- An old Pahlavi-Pazand Glossary
(1870)
- Vedische Ratselfragen und Ratselspruche
(1875)
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