KERN, JAN HENDRIK (1833 )

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KERN, JAN HENDRIK (1833 ) , Dutch Orientalist, was born in Java of Dutch parents on the 6th of

April

APRIL

1833. He studied at

Utrecht

UTRECHT
UTRECHT, TREATY OF

, Leiden and Berlin, where he was a

pupil

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

of the Sanskrit scholar, Albrecht Weber. After some years spent as professor of

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

at Maestricht, he became professor of Sanskrit at Benares in 1863, and in 1865 at Leiden. His studies included the Malay languages as well as Sanskrit. His

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

work

WORK

is Geschiedenis van het Buddhisme in Indie (Haarlem, 2 vols., 18811883); in

English

ENGLISH

he wrote a

translation

TRANSLATION

(

Oxford

, 1884) of the Saddharma Pundarika and a

Manual

MANUAL

of Indian Buddhism (Strassburg, 1896) for Biihler Kielhorn's Grundriss der indoarischen Philologie.

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