Goldstücker.

Goldstücker. THEODOR, Sanskrit scholar, was born of Jewish parents on 18th January 1821, at Königsberg, studied there, at Bonn, and at Paris, and established himself as privat-docent at Berlin. He came to England in 1850 on the invitation of Professor H. Wilson, and in 1852 was appointed professor of Sanskrit, University College, London, a post he held till his death, 6th March 1872. Founder of the Sanskrit Text Society, he was an active member of the Philological and Royal Asiatic Societies. He wrote all the most important articles on Indian mythology and philosophy (67 in number) in the first edition of this Encyclopædia, and contributed to the Athenæum and Westminster Review. Of his separately-published works the most notable are Pāṇini: his Place in Sanskrit Literature (1861); the Sanskrit text of the Jaṇiniya-Nyāya-Mālā-Vistara (completed by Professor Cowell); and part of a great Sanskrit Dictionary. He projected numerous other works, including a text of the Mahābhārata, for which he had made vast collections of materials. His Literary Remains (2 vols. 1879) comprises, with other papers, the articles contributed to Chambers's Encyclopædia.