Böhtlingk, OTTO, Sanskrit scholar, was born in 1815 of German ancestry at St Petersburg; from 1835 to 1842 studied oriental languages, especially Sanskrit, at Berlin and Bonn; and, after twenty-six years in his native city, settled in 1868 at Jena. Among his invaluable works are the first European edition of the Indian grammarian Panini (1839), a Sanskrit Chrestomathy (1845; 2d ed. 1877), and a great Sanskrit dictionary (7 vols. 1855-75). In 1888 he celebrated his jubilee.
Böhtlingk, OTTO
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 269
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