Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner

Gottlieb William Leitner ( born October 14, 1840 in Pest, † March 22, 1899 in Bonn ) was an Orientalist.

Gottlieb William Leitner received his education in Constantinople Opel, Brusa, Malta and at King's College London, where in 1859 a teacher of Arabic and Turkish has been a year and went to a few years later to Lahore in the East Indies, where he was by the creation of numerous schools ( including the Punjab University College ), literary societies and public libraries had merit.

Of great importance in the years 1866-1870 his efforts made on behalf of the Government of the Punjab explorations in Kashmir, Little Tibet, Ladakh, Dardistan etc. were particularly through the discovery related to the Sanskrit Dardischen languages ​​he learned with great difficulty and in the the work of races and languages ​​of Dardistan ( Lahor 1867-1871, 2 vols, 2nd edition 1877) scientifically treated, and by the discovery of the remains of a tribe in which Leitner due to that found Greco- Buddhist sculptures descendants of the Macedonian branch of the time of Alexander the Great. suspected.

Its matched in the East Indies rich collection of ancient Indian and Central Asian antiquities, coins, sculptures and manuscripts excited at the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 a great sensation.

Publications

  • On the sciences of language and of ethnography, with general reference to the language and customs of the people of Hanza: A report of an extempore address. (after 1856).
  • Introduction to a philosophical Grammar of Arabic: Being an attempt to discover a few simple principles in Arabic Grammar. Reprinted and slightly Enlarged from the " Punjab Educational Magazine", Lahore 1871
  • The Zinin -i -Islam; The races of Turkey; History of Dardistan, songs, legends, etc; Graeco- budhistic discoveries; History of indigenous education in the Punjab since annexation.
  • A lecture on the races of Turkey, Both of Europe and of Asia, and the state of Their education: being, Principally, a contribution to Muhammadan education. Lahore in 1871.
  • A detailed analysis of Abdul Ghafur 's dictionary of the terms used by criminal tribes in the Panjab. Lahore 1880.
  • History of indigenous education in the Punjab since annexation and in 1882 Calcutta 1882 Reprint Delhi:. . Amar Prakashan, 1982.
  • The Hunza and Nagyr handbook being an introduction to a knowledge of the language. Calcutta 1889.
  • Dardistan in 1866, 1886 and 1893: being an account of the history, religion, customs, legends, fables, and songs of Gilgit, Chilas, Kandia ( Gabrial ) Yasin, Chitral, Hunza, Aagyr, and other parts of the Hindukush, Reprint of the edition Woking, Oriental Univ. Inst, 1893, New Delhi: Bhavana Books & Prints, 2001 ISBN 81-8650549-0
  • Dardistan in 1866, 1886 and 1893: being an account of the history, religion, customs, legends, fables and songs of Gilgit Chilas, Kandia ( Gabrial ) Yasin, Chitral, Hunza, Nagyr and other parts of the Hindu Kush; So as a suppl. to the 2nd ed of The Hunza and Nagyr handbook and epitome of on p. 3 of the author's "The languages ​​and races of Dardistan " (online). Reprint of the edition 1889, Karachi: Indus Publ, 1985.
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