biography
pronunciation:
[benfiy]
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| lived:
| (1809–81)
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| biography:
| Philologist, born near Göttingen, C Germany. His early work was in the fields of classical and Hebrew philology, the Lexicon of Greek Roots (1839–42). Having learned Sanskrit in a few weeks to win a bet, he later turned his attention to Sanskrit philology. He was professor at Göttingen from 1848. His best-known work is the Sanskrit–English Dictionary (1866). |
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