Lorenz Franz Kielhorn (31 May 1840 – 19 March 1908) was a German Indologist.
Biography Lorenz Franz Kielhorn was born and raised in Osnabrück, Germany. He studied under Theodor Benfey at the University of Göttingen, where he became member of Burschenschaft Hannovera (fraternity),:de:Burschenschaft Hannovera Göttingen and under Adolf Friedrich Stenzler at Breslau and with Albrecht Weber in Berlin.Otto Böhtlingk an Rudolf Roth by Otto von Böhtlingk, Rudolf von Roth, Heidrun Brückner, Gabriele Zeller, Agnes Stache-Weiske In 1862-65 he worked in Oxford, where he assisted Monier Williams in the production of a Sanskrit dictionary. While here, he also consulted with Friedrich Max Müller, when the latter was working on his first edition of Rigveda. From 1866 to 1881 he was a professor of Sanskrit at Deccan College in Pune, and after 1882, a professor at the University of Göttingen.
Kielhorn's results from the handling of rich material that he himself partially collected and partially got sent are mainly explained in Indian antiquary and Epigraphia Indica.Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Asiatic Society of Bengal After the death of Georg Bühler (1837-1898), he edited the "Grundriss der indoarischen Philologie". Together with Bühler, Kielhorn had initiated the series Bombay Sanskrit Series.Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände. Niedersachsen A-G. by Bernhard Fabian, Felicitas Marwinski Friedhilde Krause Eberhard Dünninger, Paul Raabe
In 1887, Kielhorn was appointed an honorary Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) for his services in Pune. He received the honorary degree Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from the University of Glasgow in June 1901, and the honorary degree Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from the University of Oxford in June 1902.
In 1908, Kiehorn died in Osnabrück, Germany.
Works Çāntanava's Phitsūtra (with translation in Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, IV, 1866) Nāgojibhatta's Paribhāşenduçekhara (translated in Bombay Sanskrit series 1868) Sanskrit grammar (1870, translated into German by Wilhelm Solf in 1888).Brockhaus' konversations-lexikon, Volume 14 Google Books Kātyāyana and Patanjali (1876) The Vyākarana-mahābhāşya of Patanjali (3 volumes in Bombay Sanskrit series, 1880–85) Report on the search of Sanskrit manuscripts (1881) A grammar of the Sanskrit language (1888).
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