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	'''Simon Theodor Aufrecht''' (7 January 1822 – 3 April 1907) was a ~~[[Germany\|~~German]] [[~~indologist~~]] and [[Comparative linguistics\|comparative linguist]].		'''Simon Theodor Aufrecht''' (7 January 1822 – 3 April 1907) was a German [[Indologist]] and [[Comparative linguistics\|comparative linguist]]. He was the first Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at the University of Edinburgh, and subsequently spent two decades as Professor of Indology at the University of Bonn.

	==Biography==		==Biography==
	Aufrecht was born into a [[Jewish]] family<ref>Shlomo Berger, ''Speaking Jewish - Jewish Speak: Multilingualism in Western Ashkenazic Culture'', Peeters Publishers (2003), p. 254</ref> ~~in [[Leschnitz]]~~, ~~[[Prussian Silesia]], and~~ was educated at [[Humboldt University of Berlin\|Humboldt-Universität]] in [[Humboldt University of Berlin\|Berlin]], graduating in 1847, in which year he also published a treatise on [[Sanskrit]] accent (''De Accentu Sancritico'',<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/deaccentucomposi00aufruoft\|title=De accentu compositorum sanscriticorum\|last=Aufrecht\|first=Theodor\|date=1847\|publisher=Bonnae H.B. König\|others=Robarts - University of Toronto}}</ref> [[Bonn]], 1847), originally his dissertation. With [[Adolf Kirchhoff\|Kirchhoff]], he collaborated in the publication of ''Die umbrischen Denkmäler'' ([[Umbria]]n memorials, 1849–51). With [[Adalbert Kuhn]], he founded the ''Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung'' (1852). In 1852 he moved to [[University of Oxford\|Oxford]] to assist [[Max Müller\|Friedrich Max Muller]] in preparation of his edition of [[Rigveda]] with [[Sayana\|Sāyaṇa's]] commentary.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz1555.html#ndbcontent_portraits\|title=Aufrecht, Theodor - Deutsche Biographie\|last=Biographie\|first=Deutsche\|website=www.deutsche-biographie.de\|language=de\|access-date=2017-11-10}}</ref> He studied at the [[Bodleian Library]] and prepared a catalogue of its collection of Sanskrit manuscripts (''Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum bibl. Bodleianae P. VIII. codices Sanscriticos complectens'', 1859–64). From 1862 until 1875, he was professor at the [[University of Edinburgh]] in [[Scotland]], where he occupied the newly established chair of Sanskrit and comparative philology. There, in 1875, he was granted the degree of [[LL.D.]]		Aufrecht was born in [[Leschnitz]], [[Prussian Silesia]], into a [[Jewish]] family;<ref>Shlomo Berger, ''Speaking Jewish - Jewish Speak: Multilingualism in Western Ashkenazic Culture'', Peeters Publishers (2003), p. 254</ref> he later adopted Christianity.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=AUFRECHT, Simon Theodor – Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen\|url=https://whowaswho-indology.info/354/aufrecht-simon-theodor/\|access-date=2022-01-20\|language=en-US}}</ref> He was educated at [[Humboldt University of Berlin\|Humboldt-Universität]] in [[Humboldt University of Berlin\|Berlin]], graduating in 1847, in which year he also published a treatise on [[Sanskrit]] accent (''De Accentu Sancritico'',<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/deaccentucomposi00aufruoft\|title=De accentu compositorum sanscriticorum\|last=Aufrecht\|first=Theodor\|date=1847\|publisher=Bonnae H.B. König\|others=Robarts - University of Toronto}}</ref> [[Bonn]], 1847), originally his dissertation. With [[Adolf Kirchhoff\|Kirchhoff]], he collaborated in the publication of ''Die umbrischen Denkmäler'' ([[Umbria]]n memorials, 1849–51). With [[Adalbert Kuhn]], he founded the ''Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung'' (1852). In 1852 he moved to [[University of Oxford\|Oxford]] to assist [[Max Müller\|Friedrich Max Muller]] in preparation of his edition of [[Rigveda]] with [[Sayana\|Sāyaṇa's]] commentary.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz1555.html#ndbcontent_portraits\|title=Aufrecht, Theodor - Deutsche Biographie\|last=Biographie\|first=Deutsche\|website=www.deutsche-biographie.de\|language=de\|access-date=2017-11-10}}</ref> He studied at the [[Bodleian Library]] and prepared a catalogue of its collection of Sanskrit manuscripts (''Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum bibl. Bodleianae P. VIII. codices Sanscriticos complectens'', 1859–64). From 1862 until 1875, he was professor at the [[University of Edinburgh]] in [[Scotland]], where he occupied the newly established chair of Sanskrit and comparative philology. There, in 1875, he was granted the degree of [[LL.D.]]

	In 1875, Aufrecht was appointed to the chair of indology at the [[University of Bonn]], and remained at that post until 1889. Between 1891 and 1903, he published a three volume alphabetical catalogue of all [[Sanskrit]] manuscript collections known at the time, in a work titled, ''Catalogus Catalogorum''. This was the first such attempt to catalogue all Indian manuscripts, built on Aufrecht's previous catalogues of Sanskrit manuscripts of libraries of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] (1869),<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_LraKzEDPJNYC\|title=A Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. By Th. Aufrecht\|last=Trinity College (University of Cambridge). Library\|last2=Aufrecht\|first2=Theodor\|date=1869\|publisher=Deighton, Bell & Co.: Cambridge; Bell & Daldy: London\|others=National Central Library of Florence}}</ref> Florence (1892), Leipzig (1901), and München (1909). Beginning in 1935, the [[University of Madras]] began working on an updated catalogue called the ''New Catalogus Catalogorum'', ~~a work that is still~~ in ~~progress~~.		In 1875, Aufrecht was appointed to the chair of indology at the [[University of Bonn]], and remained at that post until 1889. Between 1891 and 1903, he published a three volume alphabetical catalogue of all [[Sanskrit]] manuscript collections known at the time, in a work titled, ''Catalogus Catalogorum''. This was the first such attempt to catalogue all Indian manuscripts, built on Aufrecht's previous catalogues of Sanskrit manuscripts of libraries of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] (1869),<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_LraKzEDPJNYC\|title=A Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. By Th. Aufrecht\|last=Trinity College (University of Cambridge). Library\|last2=Aufrecht\|first2=Theodor\|date=1869\|publisher=Deighton, Bell & Co.: Cambridge; Bell & Daldy: London\|others=National Central Library of Florence}}</ref> Florence (1892), Leipzig (1901), and München (1909). Beginning in 1935, the [[University of Madras]] began working on an updated catalogue called the [[New Catalogus Catalogorum]], which was completed in 2019 with the publication of its 42nd volume.

	Aufrecht died in [[Bonn]].		Aufrecht died in [[Bonn]].
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'''Simon Theodor Aufrecht''' (7 January 1822 – 3 April 1907) was a [[Germany|German]] [[indologist]] and [[Comparative linguistics|comparative linguist]].

==Biography==
Aufrecht was born into a [[Jewish]] family<ref>Shlomo Berger, ''Speaking Jewish - Jewish Speak: Multilingualism in Western Ashkenazic Culture'', Peeters Publishers (2003), p. 254</ref> in [[Leschnitz]], [[Prussian Silesia]], and was educated at [[Humboldt University of Berlin|Humboldt-Universität]] in [[Humboldt University of Berlin|Berlin]], graduating in 1847, in which year he also published a treatise on [[Sanskrit]] accent (''De Accentu Sancritico'',<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/deaccentucomposi00aufruoft|title=De accentu compositorum sanscriticorum|last=Aufrecht|first=Theodor|date=1847|publisher=Bonnae H.B. König|others=Robarts - University of Toronto}}</ref> [[Bonn]], 1847), originally his dissertation. With [[Adolf Kirchhoff|Kirchhoff]], he collaborated in the publication of ''Die umbrischen Denkmäler'' ([[Umbria]]n memorials, 1849–51). With [[Adalbert Kuhn]], he founded the ''Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung'' (1852). In 1852 he moved to [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] to assist [[Max Müller|Friedrich Max Muller]] in preparation of his edition of [[Rigveda]] with [[Sayana|Sāyaṇa's]] commentary.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz1555.html#ndbcontent_portraits|title=Aufrecht, Theodor - Deutsche Biographie|last=Biographie|first=Deutsche|website=www.deutsche-biographie.de|language=de|access-date=2017-11-10}}</ref> He studied at the [[Bodleian Library]] and prepared a catalogue of its collection of Sanskrit manuscripts (''Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum bibl. Bodleianae P. VIII. codices Sanscriticos complectens'', 1859–64). From 1862 until 1875, he was professor at the [[University of Edinburgh]] in [[Scotland]], where he occupied the newly established chair of Sanskrit and comparative philology. There, in 1875, he was granted the degree of [[LL.D.]]

In 1875, Aufrecht was appointed to the chair of indology at the [[University of Bonn]], and remained at that post until 1889. Between 1891 and 1903, he published a three volume alphabetical catalogue of all [[Sanskrit]] manuscript collections known at the time, in a work titled, ''Catalogus Catalogorum''. This was the first such attempt to catalogue all Indian manuscripts, built on Aufrecht's previous catalogues of Sanskrit manuscripts of libraries of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] (1869),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_LraKzEDPJNYC|title=A Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. By Th. Aufrecht|last=Trinity College (University of Cambridge). Library|last2=Aufrecht|first2=Theodor|date=1869|publisher=Deighton, Bell & Co.: Cambridge; Bell & Daldy: London|others=National Central Library of Florence}}</ref> Florence (1892), Leipzig (1901), and München (1909). Beginning in 1935, the [[University of Madras]] began working on an updated catalogue called the ''New Catalogus Catalogorum'', a work that is still in progress.

Aufrecht died in [[Bonn]].

==Bibliography==
* ''De accentu sanscritico'', Bonnae: H. B. Konig, 1847.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_BNW_AofxD_4C|title=Ujjvaladattaʼs commentary on the Unadisutras edited from a manuscript in the Library of the East India House by Theodor Aufrecht|last=Ujjvaladatta|date=1859|publisher=A. Marcus|others=National Central Library of Florence|language=Hindi}}</ref>
* ''Ujjvaladatta's Commentary'' (from a manuscript in the library of the East India House), 1859.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_BNW_AofxD_4C|title=Ujjvaladattaʼs commentary on the Unadisutras edited from a manuscript in the Library of the East India House by Theodor Aufrecht|last=Ujjvaladatta|date=1859|publisher=A. Marcus|others=National Central Library of Florence|language=Hindi}}</ref>
* ''Die Hymnen des Rigveda'', 2 volumes,1877.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/diehymnendesrig01aufrgoog|title=Die hymnen des Rigveda|last=Aufrecht|first=Theodor|date=1877|publisher=Bonn, A. Marcus|others=University of Michigan}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/diehymnendesrig00aufrgoog|title=Die hymnen des Rigveda|last=Aufrecht|first=Theodor|date=1877|publisher=Bonn, A. Marcus|others=Harvard University}}</ref>
* ''Aitareya Brahmana'', 1879.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/AitareyaBrahmana1879|title=Aitareya Brahmana 1879|language=Sanskrit}}</ref>
* ''Catalogus Catalogorum'', 3 volumes, Leipzig, 1891,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.136493|title=Catalogus Catalogorum An Alphabetical Register Of Sanskrit Works And Authors Part-i|last=Aufrecht|first=t|date=1962}}</ref> 1896 and 1903.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.382489|title=Catalogus Catalogorum An Alphabetical Register Of Sanskrit Works And Authors|last=Theodor Aufrecht|date=1903}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{Cite Americana|wstitle=Aufrecht, Theodor |year=1920}}
* {{Cite NIE|wstitle=Aufrecht, Theodor |year=1905}}
* Kirfel, Willibald, "Aufrecht, Theodor".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz1555.html#top|title=Aufrecht, Theodor - Deutsche Biographie|last=Biographie|first=Deutsche|website=www.deutsche-biographie.de|language=de|access-date=2017-11-10}}</ref> Deutsche Biographie.

==External links==
* [http://www.asien.uni-bonn.de/abteilungen/indologie The Bonn School of German Indology] {{in lang|de}}

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