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Georg Bühler
1837–1898
A pioneering 19th-century Indologist, he helped open up the study of ancient Indian languages, law, and inscriptions to modern scholarship. His work combined sharp philological detail with a wide curiosity about how texts, history, and culture fit together.
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On the Indian Sect of the Jainas
by Georg Bühler
About the author
Born in Borstel, Hanover, on July 19, 1837, Georg Bühler became one of the leading European scholars of Sanskrit and early Indian studies. He studied at the University of Göttingen and continued his training in Paris and London before building much of his career around the study of Indian languages, literature, law, and epigraphy.
Bühler spent many important years in India, including work in Bombay, where he taught and carried out research that drew on manuscripts, inscriptions, and legal texts. He later became professor of Indian philology and archaeology at the University of Vienna, and his publications ranged widely across Sanskrit grammar, Indian law, Jain literature, and ancient inscriptions.
He is especially remembered for the breadth of his scholarship and for helping shape the modern academic study of India in Europe. Bühler died on April 8, 1898, near Lake Constance, leaving behind a body of work that remained influential long after his death.