Lassen, Christian a famous German Orientalist, was born October 22, 1800, at Bergen, Norway. He studied at Christiana, Heidelberg, and Bonn, spent some years at London and Paris copying and comparing Indian MSS., and published with Burnouf the Essai sur le Pali (Paris, 1826). Having returned to Bonn, he commenced his academical career by publishing Commentatio Geographica atque Historica de Pentapotamia Indica (Bonn, 1827). In 1830 he was made professor, and died May 8, 1876. He published editions of Javadeva's Gitagovinda (1837): — Gymnosophista, sive Indicae Philosophiae Documenta (1832 ): — Anthologia Sanscritica (1838; new edition by Gildemeister, 1865, 1868): — Institutiones Linguae Pracriticae (1837); but his main work is Indische Alterthumskunde (1844-62, 4 volumes; 2d ed. volume 1, 1866; volume 2, 1873). In his Die altpersischen Keilinschriften (1836) he deciphered for the first time the-cuneiform inscriptions. (B.P.)
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More