Wilhelm Geiger

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Wilhelm Ludwig Geiger (1856-1943) was a German Orientalist, in the fields of Indian and Iranian languages. He was known as a specialist in Pali and the languages of the Maldives.

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[edit] Life

He travelled to Ceylon in 1895 to study the language[1]. He appeared on a stamp in Sri Lanka, in 1989[2].

The physicist Hans Geiger, inventor of the Geiger counter, was his son.

[edit] Works

  • A Grammar of the Sinhalese Language
  • Mahavamsa : the great chronicle of Ceylon, translation (scan)
  • Pali Literature and Language; revised by K. R. Norman under the title A Pali Grammar
  • Ceylon. Tagebuchblätter und Reiseerinnerungen.
  • Maldivian Linguistic Studies. Colombo 1919.
  • Grundriss der iranischen Philologie, with Ernst Kuhn

[edit] References

  • Heinz Bechert (1976), Wilhelm Geiger: His Life and Works

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Alfred Jeyaratnam Wilson (1988), The Break-up of Sri Lanka: the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict, p. 29; [1]
  2. ^ Goethe-Institut 50-jähriges Jubiläum des Goethe-Instituts Sri Lanka - Andere über uns

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