Theodor Benfey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Theodor Benfey

German philologist

Date of Birth: 28-Jan-1809

Place of Birth: Nörten-Hardenberg, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 26-Jun-1881

Profession: university teacher, philologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Theodor Benfey

  • This is about the German philologist.
  • For Theodor Benfey (born 1925) who developed a spiral periodic table of the elements in 1964, see Otto Theodor Benfey.Theodor Benfey (28 January 1809, in Nörten near Göttingen – 26 June 1881, in Göttingen) was a German philologist and scholar of Sanskrit.
  • His works, particularly his Sanskrit-English dictionary, formed a major contribution to Sanskrit studies

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