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Introductory essay and tools by Nalini Balbir
his Dissertation on the Aupapātikasūtra, prepared under the guidance of A. Weber and published in 1883; after his doctorate, works on the collection of Indian manuscripts in Berlin.
Assistant of M. Monier-Williams in Oxford. E. Leumann works on the Sanskrit-English Dictionary (and continues to work on it after his formal assignment ends).
Secondary school teacher of Latin and English in Frauenfeld for a few months. -- Appointed professor without chair at the University of Strasbourg (a town then belonging to Germany), where his predecessors in the field of Comparative linguistics and Indology were F. Max Müller, Siegfried Goldschmidt (18441884), Ernst Windisch (1844-1918) and Heinrich Hübschmann (1848-1908), each of whom taught for rather short periods. With Leumann's appointment, Indology in its broadest sense was instituted as a prominent subject of this University for several years. Leumann taught Sanskrit, Indian sastric disciplines, Jaina texts, inscriptions, "Nordarisch", Buddhist texts,
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Married to Gertrud Siegemund Birth of his elder son, Manu, who became a renowned linguist (died 1977) - No precise information about the dates of the younger son, Hari, who became mathematician.
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Leumann's preliminary work on Central Asian manuscript fragments led to the decipherment and identification of Tocharian.
Appointed as ordinary professor at the University of Strasbourg.
Leumann's works on the language he called "Nordarisch", i.e. Khotanese, another terra incognita where he was a pioneer.
After the First World War, Strasbourg attached again becomes to France. Leumann loses his professorship, shifts to Freiburg-im-Breisgau (Germany) where
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