George Thibaut

George Frederick William Thibaut

Life

Thibaut was born in

On 6 November 2014, in its column "100 Years Ago" The Statesman reprinted the following obituary on the late Dr. Thibaut:

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.

He was appointed CIE in the 1906 New Year Honours.

Works

Between 1875 and 1878 Thibaut published a detailed essay on the

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• Vol. 34, The Vedanta-Sutras, vol. 1 of 3, with the commentary of 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.^[3]

• 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

1. ^ "THIBAUT, George Frederick William". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1734.
2. ISBN 978-0-8386-4208-5
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3. ^ Nakamura, Hajime. A History of Early Vedānta Philosophy: part two. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 776.

External links

• Works by George Thibaut at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about George Thibaut at Internet Archive
• Works by George Thibaut at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• The Vedânta-sutras ... translated by George Thibaut (1890)

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