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'''Albrecht Friedrich Weber''' ({{IPA-de|ˈalbʁɛçt ˈveːbɐ}};<ref>{{cite web|url=https://de.langenscheidt.com/franzoesisch-deutsch/search?term=Albrecht|title=Albrecht - Deutsch-Übersetzung - Langenscheidt Französisch-Deutsch Wörterbuch|publisher=[[Langenscheidt]]|access-date=22 October 2018|language=de, fr}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Wells|first=John C.|year=2008|title=Longman Pronunciation Dictionary|edition=3rd|publisher=Longman|isbn=978-1-4058-8118-0}}</ref> 17 February 1825 – 30 November 1901) was a [[Germans|German]] [[Indologist]] and [[historian]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Bendall, C.|authorlink=Cecil Bendall|title=Obituary: Prof. Albrecht Weber|date=7 December 1901|issue= 3867|pages=774|journal=The Athenæum|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858029268103;view=1up;seq=788}}</ref><br />
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He was born in [[Wrocław|Breslau]], where his father was a professor of [[political economy]]. He studied in that town, [[Bonn]], and in [[Berlin]], 1842-1845, busying himself especially with literature and [[Sanskrit]] [[philology]]. He received a doctor's degree at [[University of Breslau|Breslau]]. In 1846, he visited [[England]] and [[France]] in connection with his studies. On his return to Germany, he went to the [[Humboldt University of Berlin|University of Berlin]], where he was [[privatdocent]], and in 1856 became an adjunct professor of the language and literature of [[History of India|ancient India]]. In 1867 he was made full professor. He was a member of the [[Prussian Academy of Sciences|Academy of Sciences of Berlin]], and was the author of many books and periodical contributions on classical subjects. He was a close friend of [[Max Müller]].<br />
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He might be one of the earliest Indologists who emphasized the social philosophy of Buddhism. In his opinion "''Buddhism is, in its origin, one of the most magnificent and radical reactions in favour of the universal human rights of the individual against the oppressing tyranny of the pretended privileges of divine origin, of birth, and of class.''"<br />
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Weber died in Berlin.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Brahminism and Buddhism Two Antithetic Conceptions of Society in Ancient India|last=Tola Fernando|first=Dragonetti Carmen|publisher=Critical Quest|year=2013|isbn=978-81-89524-97-5|location=New Delhi, India|pages=1}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
* ''Indische Studien'', 1849–85 (18 vols.)<br />
* ''Weiße [[Yajurveda|Jadschurveda]]'', [[London]] 1849-1859 (3 vols.)<br />
* ''Schwarze Jadschurveda'', [[Leipzig]] 1871-1872<br />
* ''[[Caranavyuha|Tscharanawyuha]]. Übersicht über die Schulen der Vedas'', [[Berlin]] 1855<br />
* ''Akademische Vorlesungen über indische Litteraturgeschichte'', Berlin, 1852; 2d ed. 1876 (translated by Zachariae and Mann, London, 1878)<br />
* a translation of [[Kalidasa]]'s drama ''Mālavikā und Agnimitra'', 1856<br />
* ''Indische Skizzen'', Berlin 1857<br />
* ''Indische Streifen'', Berlin 1868-1879 (3 vols.)<br />
* ''Verzeichnis der Sanskrithandschriften der königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin'', Berlin 1853-1892<br />
* ''Über das Catrunjaya des Mahâtmyam'', Leipzig 1858<br />
* an edition of Hala's ''Saptasataka'', 1881<br />
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He also contributed much lexicographical material, especially from Vedic literature, to the ''Sanskrit-Wörterbuch'' of [[Otto von Böhtlingk]] and [[Rudolf Roth]].<br />
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