Theodor Benfey
German philologist and scholar of Sanskrit / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Theodor Benfey (German: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈbɛnfaɪ]; 28 January 1809, in Nörten near Göttingen – 26 June 1881, in Göttingen) was a German philologist and scholar of Sanskrit. His works, particularly his Sanskrit-English dictionary, formed a major contribution to Sanskrit studies.
- This is about the German philologist. For Theodor Benfey (born 1925) who developed a spiral periodic table of the elements in 1964, see Otto Theodor Benfey.