Wilhelm Geiger
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, Sinhala language and the Dhivehi language of the Maldives.
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.
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
References
- Heinz Bechert (1976), Wilhelm Geiger: His Life and Works
Notes
- ^ Alfred Jeyaratnam Wilson (1988), The Break-up of Sri Lanka: the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict, p. 29; [1]
- ^ Goethe-Institut 50-jähriges Jubiläum des Goethe-Instituts Sri Lanka - Andere über uns
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