Dictionary of Indian Biography/Böhtlingk, Otto von
BÖHTLINGK, OTTO VON (1815–1904)
Born May 30, 1815, at St. Petersburg: studied there and at Dorpat, Berlin, Bonn: returned to St. Petersburg, 1842. At first, his scholarship was directed to the study of Arabic and Persian, but he became celebrated as a worker in Sanskrit. In 1840, he published Grammaire Sanskrile (Panini's), 1843: Dissertation sur Vaccent Sanskrit: edition and German translation of Sakuntala de Kalidasa: Chrestomathie Sanskrite, 1877. The great work of his life was his Sanskrit Dictionary, 7 vols, brought out with the collaboration of Professors Roth and Weber, 1852–75: died at Leipzig in 1904.