Wilhelm Ludwig Geiger (1856-1943) was a German Orientalist, in the fields of Indian and Iranian languages. Year 1856 ( MDCCCLVI) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He was known as a specialist in Pali and the languages of the Maldives. Pali ( ISO 15919 / ALA-LC: Pāḷi is a Middle Indo-Aryan language or Prakrit of India. The Maldives ( or, or Maldive Islands) officially the Republic of Maldives, is an Island nation consisting of a group of atolls stretching
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Life
He travelled to Ceylon in 1895 to study the language[1]. Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ( Sinhalese:, இலங்கை known as Ceylon before 1972 is an Island He appeared on a stamp in Sri Lanka, in 1989[2]. Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ( Sinhalese:, இலங்கை known as Ceylon before 1972 is an Island
The physicist Hans Geiger, inventor of the Geiger counter, was his son. Johannes (Hans Wilhelm Geiger ( September 30, 1882 &ndash September 24, 1945) was a German Physicist. A Geiger counter, also called a Geiger-Müller counter, is a type of Particle detector that measures Ionizing radiation.
Works
- A Grammar of the Sinhalese Language
- Mahavamsa : the great chronicle of Ceylon, translation (scan)
- Pali Literature and Language; revised by K. R. Norman under the title A Pali Grammar
- Ceylon. Kenneth Roy Norman (b 1925 is a leading scholar of Middle Indo-Aryan or Prakrit particularly of Pali. Tagebuchblätter und Reiseerinnerungen.
- Maldivian Linguistic Studies. Colombo 1919.
- Grundriss der iranischen Philologie, with Ernst Kuhn
References
- Heinz Bechert (1976), Wilhelm Geiger: His Life and Works
Notes
- ^ Alfred Jeyaratnam Wilson (1988), The Break-up of Sri Lanka: the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict, p. 29; [1]
- ^ Goethe-Institut 50-jähriges Jubiläum des Goethe-Instituts Sri Lanka - Andere über uns
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