>Rathfelder at 07:21, 3 June 2019

2019-06-03T07:21:28Z

New page

'''George Frederick William Thibaut''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|CIE}} (March 20, 1848 – 1914) was an [[Indologist]] notable for his contributions to the understanding of [[History of India|ancient India]]n [[Indian mathematics|mathematics]] and [[Indian science|astronomy]].

==Life==
Thibaut was born in [[Germany]], worked briefly in [[England]], and then in 1875 was appointed Professor at the [[Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi]]<ref>{{cite magazine|title=THIBAUT, George Frederick William|magazine=Who's Who|date=1907|volume= 59|page=1734|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1734}}</ref> in northern India. From 1888 to 1895 he was professor at [[Muir Central College]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Douglas T. McGetchin|title=Indology, Indomania, and Orientalism: Ancient India's Rebirth in Modern Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PHVRDSM-tyMC&pg=PA107|date=2009|publisher=[[Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press]]|isbn=978-0-8386-4208-5|page=107–}}</ref> in [[Allahabad]].

On 6 November 2014 in its column "100 Years Ago" ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]'' reprinted the following obituary on the late Dr. Thibaut:

<blockquote>
The death is reported at Heidelberg Hospital, Germany of Dr George Thibaut, C.I.E., Ph.D., D.Sc., who recently retired from the Education Service as Registrar of the Calcutta University. Dr. Thibaut who took part in Franco-German War of 1870 as a noncommissioned officer joined the Muir Central College, Allahabad some 22 years ago as Professor of Philosophy. He rose to be the Principal of the College and was appointed Registrar of the Allahabad University, afterwards being transferred to Calcutta. Besides being a well-known student of philosophy Eastern and Western, the late Dr. Thibaut was an eminent Sanskrit scholar.</blockquote>

He was appointed CIE in the [[1906 New Year Honours]].

==Works==
Between 1875 and 1878 Thibaut published a detailed essay on the ''[[Śulba sūtras]]'', together with a translation of the ''Baudhāyana Śulba sūtra''; he later translated the ''[[Pañca Siddhāntikā]]'' which he co-edited with Pandit [[Sudhakar Dwivedi]] (the latter added a Sanskrit commentary). He also edited and translated the following volumes in [[Max Müller]]'s ''[[Sacred Books of the East]]'':

* Vol. 34, ''[[Brahma Sutras|The Vedanta-Sutras]]'', vol. 1 of 3, with the commentary of [[Adi Shankara|Sankaracharya]], part 1 of 2. Adhyâya I–II (Pâda I–II). (1890)
* Vol. 38, ''The Vedanta-Sutras'', vol. 2 of 3, with the commentary of Sankaracharya, part 1 of 2. Adhyâya II (Pâda III–IV)–IV. (1896)
It was one of the earliest translation of the [[Brahma Sutras]] along with the work of [[Paul Deussen]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Nakamura|first=Hajime|title=A History of Early Vedānta Philosophy: part two|publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]]|page=776}}</ref>
* Vol. 48, ''The Vedanta-Sutras'', vol. 3 of 3, with the commentary of [[Râmânuja]]. (1904)

Thibaut contributed a number of Sanskrit manuscripts to the Department of Oriental Collections, [[Bodleian Library]], [[University of Oxford]], where they are archived today.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Gutenberg author |id=Thibaut,+G.+(George) | name=George Thibaut}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=George Thibaut}}
* [https://archive.org/details/vedntasutrastr03badauoft The Vedânta-sutras ... translated by George Thibaut (1890)]

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Thibaut, George}}
[[Category:German Indologists|Thibaut, George Frederick William]]
[[Category:1848 births]]
[[Category:1914 deaths]]
[[Category:Hindu astronomy]]
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire]]
[[Category:Historians of mathematics]]
[[Category:University of Calcutta faculty]]
[[Category:German male non-fiction writers]]

{{Hindu-bio-stub}}

George Thibaut - Revision history

>Rathfelder at 07:21, 3 June 2019