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Carl Ludwig Grotefend

Carl Ludwig Grotefend

German regional historian and archivist

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]

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"), 1839

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]

  • Decirpherment of Kharoshthi by C.L. Grotefend in Blatter fur Munzkunde in 1836.[5]
  • Coin plate, by Carl Ludwig Grotefend (1839)
  • Kharoshthi on a coin of Indo-Greek king Artemidoros Aniketos, reading "Rajatirajasa Moasa Putasa cha Artemidorasa". The obverse has the same legend in Greek.

Works

  • Grotefend, Carl Ludwig (1836). Die unbekannte Schrift der Baktrischen Münzen (in Blätter für Münzkunde). Hannoversche numismatische Zeitschrift. Hrsg. von H. Grote (in German). Hahn. pp. 309–314.
  • Grotefend, Carl Ludwig (1839). Die Münzen der griechischen, parthischen und indoskythischen Könige von Baktrien und den Ländern am Indus (in German). Hahn.
  • Grotefend, Carl Ludwig; Culemann, Friedrich G. H. (1840). Geschichte der Buchdruckereien in den Hannoverschen und Braunschweigischen Landen ... Herausgegeben von F. G. H. Culemann (in German).
  • Grotefend, Carl Ludwig (1867). Die Stempel der römischen Augenärzte (in German). Hahn.
  • Grotefend, Carl Ludwig (1868). Eurykleides und Mikion, die Kephisier (in German). Dieterich'sche univ. buchdruckerei.

References

  1. [1]
    "Mitglieder - Karl Ludwig Grotefend" (in German). Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
  2. [2]
    Article published in Blatter fur Munzkunde 2 (no. 26), 1836, 309-14 + pi. XXIV. Salomon, Richard (1998). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford University Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-19-535666-3.
  3. [3]
    Prinsep published his article in Journal of the Asiatic society of Bengal 4, 1835, 327-8 Salomon, Richard (1998). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford University Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-19-535666-3.
  4. [4]
    Grotefend, Carl Ludwig (1839). Die Münzen der griechischen, parthischen und indoskythischen Könige von Baktrien und den Ländern am Indus (in German). Hahn. p. 10.
  5. [5]
    Grote, Hermann (1836). Blätter für Münzkunde. Hannoversche numismatische Zeitschrift. Hrsg. von H. Grote (in German). Hahn. pp. 309–314.
  6. [6]
    Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol IV 1835. pp. 327–348.
  7. [7]
    Salomon, Richard (1998). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford University Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-19-535666-3.
  8. [8]
    Grotefend, Carl Ludwig (1839). Die Münzen der griechischen, parthischen und indoskythischen Könige von Baktrien und den Ländern am Indus (in German). Hahn.
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