Georg Huth

Georg Huth (February 25, 1867 - June 1, 1906) was a German Orientalist and explorer.

Huth was born in Krotoszyn (Krotoschin) in the Province of Posen, Prussia. In 1885 he entered the University of Berlin, and he graduated at the University of Leipzig (Ph.D.) in 1889. In 1891 he established himself at Berlin University as lecturer in Central Asiatic languages and in Buddhism. In 1897 he undertook a journey to Siberia for the purpose of studying Tungusic, receiving a subvention from the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg. He went to eastern Turkestan with the German Turfan expedition of the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde of Berlin, in 1902, and spent the following year in western Turkestan studying Turkish dialects and folklore.

Works

He published, among others, the following works:

• "Die Zeit des Kālidāsa" (Berlin, 1889);
• "The Chandoratnākara of Ratnākaraçānti" (Sanskrit text with Tibetan translation), a work on Sanskrit prosody (ib. 1890);
• Geschichte des Buddhismus in der Mongolei: aus dem Tibetischen des 'Jigs-med-nam-mkha' (vol. i, Tibetan text; vol. ii, German transl., Strasburg, 1892–96);
• "Die Inschriften von Tsaghan Baišing," Tibetan-Mongolian text with linguistic and historical notes, printed at the expense of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (Leipzig, 1894);
• "Die Tungusische Volkslitteratur und Ihre Ethnologische Ausbeute," in the Bulletin of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1901).

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Huth, Georg". Jewish Encyclopedia. 1901–1906.