Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper

Dutch linguist

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1907

Place of Birth: The Hague, County of Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 14-Nov-2003

Profession: university teacher, linguist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper (July 7, 1907 – November 14, 2003) was a distinguished scholar in Indology, and "one of the last great Indologists of the past century ...
His very innovative work covers virtually all the fields of Indo-Iranian and Indo-Aryan philology, linguistics, mythology and theater, as well as Indo-European, Dravidian, Munda and Pan-Indian linguistics[1]". Kuiper was born in The Hague, in the Netherlands, studied Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and Indo-European linguistics at Leiden University, and in 1934 completed his doctoral thesis on the nasal presents in Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages.
After 5 years as a high school teacher of Latin and Greek at the lyceum of Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesia, in 1939 he was appointed Professor of Sanskrit at Leiden University. Kuiper was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences between 1937 and 1939, when he resigned.
He became a member again in 1948.
He was a Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
He died in Zeist and was buried in the Rijnhof cemetery at Leiden.