George Thibaut

George Frederick William Thibaut, was Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Thibaut, (* March 20, 1848, † 1914) was a German - British Indologist.

Thibaut came from Germany and since 1871 was assistant to the Indologist Friedrich Max Müller in England (Oxford). He was in India from 1875 professor at Benares Hindu College (Government Sanskrit College, Benares or Varanasi ), from 1879 to 1888 as a director, and from 1888 to 1895 at Muir College, Allahabad.

In Benares (Varanasi ), an ancient center of Indian erudition, he worked not only with local scholars, but was also, for example, visited by Richard von Garbe.

From him comes a critical edition of the Rig-Veda and the Brahma Sutra ( Vedanta Sutras ) with the commentaries of Shankara and Ramanuja (1890, 1896, 1904, 3 volumes in the Sacred Books of the East by Müller, Oxford University Press). He also wrote on mathematics and astronomy in India, for example, he was from 1875 to 1877 the Baudhayana exacts - Sulbasutra with English translation and comment out one of the oldest documents on Indian mathematics, and he gave in 1888 the astronomical collection Pancha - Siddhantika of Varahamihira (6. century ) with the librarian and later mathematics and astrology teacher at Government Sanskrit College Sudhakara Dvivedi (1855-1910) out.

He founded the magazine Pundit, were published in the ancient Sanskrit texts and translations.

After Radha Charan Gupta, he played the most important role among scholars in India in the last quarter of the 19th century in the history of mathematics.

Swell

  • Jessica Frazier (ed.) Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies, Continuum 2011, p 54
  • Douglas McGetchen Indology, Indomania and Orientalism, Rosemont Publ 2009, p 107

Writings

  • Astronomy, astrology and mathematics, floor plan of the Indo- Aryan philology and archeology, Volume 3, Issue 9, Strasbourg, Trübner, 1899 Archive

Publication and comment:

  • Vedanta Sutras, Volume 1, Project Gutenberg, archives
  • Vedanta Sutras, Volume 2, Archive
  • Vedanta Sutras, Volume 3, Project Gutenberg and archives
  • Publisher with Sudhakara Dvivedi: The Varaha Mihira of Panchasiddhantika, Chowkhamba Sanskrit Studies 68, Varanasi, 2nd edition, 1968 ( first 1888)
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