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'''Martin Haug''' (30 January 1827 – 3 June 1876) was a [[Germany|German]] [[oriental studies|orientalist]].

==Biography==
Haug was born at [[Ostdorf]] (today a part of [[Balingen]]), [[Württemberg]]. He became a pupil in the [[Gymnasium (Germany)|gymnasium]] at [[Stuttgart]] at a comparatively late age, and in 1848 he entered the [[University of Tübingen|Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen]], where he studied oriental languages, especially [[Sanskrit]]. He afterwards attended lectures at the [[University of Göttingen|Georg-August University of Göttingen]], and in 1854 settled as [[Privatdozent]] at the [[University of Bonn]]. In 1856 he moved to the [[University of Heidelberg]], where he assisted [[Christian Karl Josias, Freiherr von Bunsen|Bunsen]] in his literary undertakings.

In 1859 he accepted an invitation to [[India]], where he became superintendent of Sanskrit studies and professor of Sanskrit in [[Poona]]. Here his acquaintance with the [[Zend language]] and literature afforded him excellent opportunities for extending his knowledge of this branch of literature. Having returned to Stuttgart in 1866, he was called to [[University of Munich|Munich]] as professor of Sanskrit and [[comparative philology]] in 1868.

It was Dr. Haug who originally outlined the structure of the popular Sanskrit introductory books by [[R. G. Bhandarkar|Bhandarkar]] which was used throughout India in the early 20th century.

Haug died in [[Bad Ragaz]].

==Works==
The result of his researches in Poona was the volume [https://books.google.com/books?id=eW8IAAAAQAAJ ''Essays on the sacred language, writings and religion of the Parsees''] (Bombay, 1862), of which a new edition, by [[Edward William West|E. W. West]], greatly enriched from the [[Posthumous publication|posthumous papers]] of the author, appeared in 1878.

Haug published a number of other works of considerable importance to the student of the literatures of ancient [[Indian literature|India]] and [[Persian literature|Persia]]. They include:
* ''Die Pehlewisprache und der Bundehesch'' (1854)
* ''Die Schrift und Sprache der zweiten Keilschriftgattung'' (1855)
* ''Die fünf Gathas'', edited, translated and expounded (1858–1860)
* an edition, with translation and explanation, of the ''Aitareya Brahnsana'' of the [[Rigveda]] (Bombay, 1863), which is accounted his best work in the province of ancient Indian literature
* ''A Lecture on an original Speech of [[Zoroaster]]'' (1865)
* ''An old Zend-Pahlavi Glossery'' (1867)
* ''Über den Charakter der Pehlewisprache'' (1869)
* ''Das 18. Kapitel des Wendidad'' (1869)
* ''Über das Ardai-Virafnameh'' (1870)
* ''[[Frahang-i Pahlavig|An old Pahlavi-Pazand Glossary]]'' (1870)
* ''Vedische Rätselfragen und Rätselsprüche'' (1875)

==References==
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* {{EB1911|wstitle=Haug, Martin}} This work in turn cites:
** [[Adalbert Bezzenberger]], ''Beiträge zur Kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen'', vol. i., pp. 70 seq, which has the particulars of Haug's life and work.

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