Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bopp, Francis
BOPP, FRANCIS (1791–1867)
Born at Mentz, Sep. 14, 1791: educated at Aschaffenburg, under Windischmann, the celebrated Oriental scholar: went to Paris, 1812, for 5 years: chiefly studied Sanskrit: settled in Gottingen: became in 1821 Extraordinary, and in 1825 Ordinary Professor of Oriental Literatiure and General Philology at Berlin University, till his death: a prominent Member of the Royal Society at Berlin: wrote his Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic Languages in the Annals of Oriental Literature, 1820: greatly encouraged and facilitated the study of Sanskrit: his Sanskrit Grammar passed through several editions, 1827–63: an original foreign member of the R.A.S. from June 7, 1823: his Comparative Grammar was translated into English, 1845–50: he died Oct. 23, 1867.