[Johann Georg]. German Indologist, born at Borstel, in Hanover, on the 19th of July 1837; educated at the University of Göttingen, in Paris and in London. He was appointed assistant librarian at Göttingen in 1862, and in the following year accepted the chair of ancient history and Oriental languages in Elphinstone College, Bombay. In 1868 he was appointed inspector of schools for Gujarat, or Northern Bombay, and commissioned to collect and report on Sancrit MSS. His district was vast and insalubrious, and his labors so exacting, that he was compelled to return to Europe in 1880 on account of his health. He then accepted the chair of Sanskrit in the University of Vienna. He issued several Sanskrit texts and a standard Digest of Hindu Law (1867).
