Ernst Kuhn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernst Kuhn

German indologist, linguist, philologist and orientalist

Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1846

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 21-Aug-1920

Profession: contributing editor, university teacher, orientalist, philologist, linguist, Indologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Ernst Wilhelm Adalbert Kuhn (7 February 1846, in Berlin – 21 August 1920, in Munich) was a German Indologist and Indo-Europeanist.
He was the son of philologist Adalbert Kuhn. He studied at the universities of Berlin and Tübingen, receiving his doctorate in 1869 with a dissertation-thesis on Kaccayana, Kaccâyanappakara?ae specimen.
In 1871 he obtained his habilitation for Sanskrit and comparative grammar at the University of Halle, and during the following year relocated to Leipzig as a lecturer.
In 1875, he became a full professor at the University of Heidelberg, and from 1877 to 1917 served as a professor of Aryan philology and comparative Indo-European linguistics at the University of Munich.From 1873 he worked on the Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung, a journal founded by his father, and since 1892 was an editor of Orientalische Bibliographie, a publication founded by August Müller in 1887.
In 1883 he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.