An edition of For the sake of the Vedas (2020)

For the sake of the Vedas

the Anglo-German life of Friedrich Rosen 1805-1837

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An edition of For the sake of the Vedas (2020)

For the sake of the Vedas

the Anglo-German life of Friedrich Rosen 1805-1837

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"If it were not for the Vedas, the university alone would not keep me in London. I like to compare myself to an Indian muni, who forsakes other concerns for a while to read the Vedas in peace and attain Indra's heaven, which in my case might be some German university. Friedrich Rosen thus wrote his teacher Bopp in 1830. Drawing primarily from a vast correspondence, most of it unpublished, this biography documents and analyzes his resolve and its impact on the rise of European Indology. The works of this first PhD in Sanskrit at a German university and first professor of Sanskrit at a British university include the first edition and translation of the first book of the Rigveda, with notes incomplete at his untimely death, and the first edition and translation of the oldest Arabic treatise on algebra. Yet more momentous was the help Rosen gave to continental scholars from Humboldt, Schlegel, and Burnouf to beginners, with sources uniquely accessible in England. He also exercised his influence on the Oriental Translation Fund to publish their works as models of critical and comparative scholarship. His mentor Humboldt acknowledged 'I can only deeply regret that we must be deprived of your presence. Yet, it is definitely of greater benefit for you, and even more for scholarship, that you remain so many years close to the sources of the works to which you are devoting yourself?'"--

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396

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Table of Contents

An educational cauldron (1805-1822)
Student at Leipzig (1822-1824)
Doctoral studies (1824-1826)
Charting a career (1826-1828)
Professor of Oriental languages at the London University (1828-1831)
Out of office (1831-1833)
Back as a professor of Sanskrit (1834-1837)
Asiatic institutions
The society for the diffusion of useful knowledge
Pioneer of the Veda
Relations with British scholars
London anchor for continental scholars
Family and friends in London
Death and Beyond.

Edition Notes

Published works of Fredrich Rosen (pages 350-351).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-371) and index.

Published in
Wiesbaden
Series
Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes -- Band 118, Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes -- Bd. 118.
Copyright Date
2020

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Dewey Decimal Class
410
Library of Congress
BL1112.26 .R634 2020, PK409.R6 R63 2020

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 396 pages
Number of pages
396

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL43788630M
ISBN 10
3447114487
ISBN 13
9783447114486
OCLC/WorldCat
1198816083
Deutsche National Bibliothek
1217429654

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