Gustav Solomon Oppert

Gustav Salomon Oppert ( born July 30, 1836 in Hamburg, † 16 March 1908 in Berlin) was a German Indologist and orientalist. He was the younger brother of businessman and ethnologists Ernst Jacob Oppert (1832-1903) and the Orientalists Jules Oppert.

Oppert studied languages ​​, literature, philosophy and history at the universities of Bonn, Leipzig, Berlin and Halle. From 1860 he worked in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. From 1872 to 1893 he was professor of Sanskrit at the Presidency College in Madras, where he was also the Madras Journal of Literature and Science published 1878-1882; then he traveled to parts of Asia and America. From 1895 he was a lecturer for non-Aryan languages ​​of India at the Berlin University.

Like his brother Jules Gustav Oppert campaigned for various Jewish causes. He was a board member of the Academy for the Science of Judaism, which he bequeathed his estate.