Ernst Leumann


Ernst Leumann was a Swiss jainologist, pioneer of the research of Jainism and Turkestan languages whose work is in consideration even today.

Career

His studies on linguistics in Zürich and Geneva and of Sanskrit in Leipzig and Berlin were followed by his doctorate in 1881 in Strasbourg. His dissertation was Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Sanskritsprache .
1882–84 working on Sanskrit-English Dictionary in Oxford.

1884 Professor in Frauenfeld.

1884 Professor of Sanskrit at University Strasbourg. In 1909–10 he was dean.

1919 became honorary professor in Freiburg.

Publications

Author

Series Indica.

Posthumous publications

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