Year: 1927
Type: article
Abstract: On the 16th January Professor Hultzsch died in his home in Halle after a long illness.Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch was born in Dresden on 29th March, 1857.He was educated in the Dresden College of the Sacred Cross, joined the University of Lipsia in 1874 and studied classics and oriental languages chiefly in Lipsia, but one year in Bonn.He attended the lectures of Brockhaus, Curtius, Fleischer, Hiibschmann, Loth, Ritschl, Windisch, and Zarncke in Lipsia, and of Aufrecht, Gildemeister and Prym in Bonn.In 1879 he took the degree of Ph.D. in Lipsia with a dissertation " Prolegomena zu des Vasantaraia Cakuna nebst Textproben," Leipzig, 1879.In 1882 he went as " Privatdocent" to Vienna, where Biihler had occupied the chair of Sanskrit since the preceding year.The intercourse with Biihler came to decide Hultzsch's further career.He remained connected with the Vienna University till 1886, but already in 1884-5 he undertook an extensive tour in Northern India, and in 1886 he was appointed epigraphist to the Government of Madras, a position which he held till he became Pischel's successor as Professor of Sanskrit in Halle in 1903.The first greater work which he published after his first dissertation was an edition of the Baudhdyanadharmasdstra, Leipzig, 1884, which is dedicated to Biihler, and the importance of Biihler's example becomes still more evident in Hultzsch's work in subsequent years.He devoted much time to the search for and examination of Sanskrit manuscripts, and published three careful and valuable Eeports on Sanskrit MSS.
Author: Sten Konow
Language: English
Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4254047504