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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I

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Date transcribed2011-04-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surnames  Hultzsch    
First Name(s)  Eugen    
Year of Birth  1857    
Entry  Born March 29, 1857, at Dresden : studied classical and Oriental philology, especially Sanskrit, at Bonn and Leipzig : Ph.D. : Privat-docent for Oriental studies at the University of Vienna : was introduced by G. Buhler to the study of Indian epigraphy : travelled for six months in N. India and Kashmir, 1884-5, and collected valuable MSS. and inscriptions : appointed, 1887, Epigraphist of the Archaeological Survey for the Presidency of Madras : and examiner in Sanskrit at Madras University. In 1903, resigned his post as Epigraphist, and has since been Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Halle : is Secretary to the Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft : Corresponding Member of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences, of the Royal Society of Science at Gottingen, etc. : has written : Prolegomena zu Vasantaraja Sakuna, 1879 : an edition of Baudhajanas' Lawbook, 1884 : South- Indian Inscriptions (Tamil and Sanskrit) : Reports on Sanskrit MSS. in South India, 1893, etc. : many of his treatises on Indian epigraphy have appeared in the Indian Antiquary.     
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