Carl Ludwig Grotefend Explained
Carl Ludwig Grotefend (22 December 1807 – 27 October 1874)[1] was a German epigraphist, philologist and numismatist. He played a key role in the decipherment of the Indian Kharoshthi script on the coinage of the Indo-Greek kings, around the same time as James Prinsep, publishing Die unbekannte Schrift der Baktrischen Münzen ("The unknown script of the Bactrian coins") in 1836.[2] [3] He was the son of the famous philologist Georg Friedrich Grotefend, who made the first successful attempts at deciphering Old Persian cuneiform.[2] [4]
It is thought that Carl Ludwig Grotefend independently accomplished the first decipherment of the Kharoshthi script (1836, in Blätter für Münzkunde, Germany)[5] around the same time as Prinsep (1835, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, India),[6] as Grotefend was "evidently not aware of the latter's article".[7]
In 1839, he wrote Die Münzen der griechischen, parthischen und indoskythischen Könige von Baktrien und den Ländern am Indus ("The coins of the Greek, Parthian and Indo-Scythian kings of Bactria and the countries on the Indus").[8]
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Notes and References
- Web site: Mitglieder - Karl Ludwig Grotefend . . . 2022-07-06 . de .
- Article published in Blatter fur Munzkunde 2 (no. 26), 1836, 309-14 + pi. XXIV. Book: Salomon . Richard . Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages . 1998 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-535666-3 . 210 . en.
- Prinsep published his article in Journal of the Asiatic society of Bengal 4, 1835, 327-8 Book: Salomon . Richard . Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages . 1998 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-535666-3 . 210 . en.
- Book: Grotefend . Carl Ludwig . Die Münzen der griechischen, parthischen und indoskythischen Könige von Baktrien und den Ländern am Indus . 1839 . Hahn . 10 . de.
- Book: Grote . Hermann . Blätter für Münzkunde. Hannoversche numismatische Zeitschrift. Hrsg. von H. Grote . 1836 . Hahn . 309–314 . de.
- Book: Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol IV 1835 . 327–348 . English.
- Book: Salomon . Richard . Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages . 1998 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-535666-3 . 211 . en.
- Book: Grotefend . Carl Ludwig . Die Münzen der griechischen, parthischen und indoskythischen Könige von Baktrien und den Ländern am Indus . 1839 . Hahn . de.