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Wilhelm Geiger

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Wilhelm Ludwig Geiger (1856-1943) was a German Orientalist, in the fields of Indian and Iranian languages. He was known as a specialist in Pali and the Dhivehi language of the Maldives.

Contents 1 Life 2 Works 3 References 4 Notes 5 External links

Life

He travelled to Ceylon in 1895 to study the language^[1]. He appeared on a stamp in Sri Lanka, in 1989^[2].

The physicist Hans Geiger, inventor of the Geiger counter, was his son.

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. 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

1. ^ Alfred Jeyaratnam Wilson (1988), The Break-up of Sri Lanka: the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict, p. 29; [1]
2. ^ Goethe-Institut 50-jähriges Jubiläum des Goethe-Instituts Sri Lanka - Andere über uns

External links

• Biography
• Biography
• English translation of Mahavamsa
• Original English translation of the Mahawamsa, with Geiger's introduction and notes

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