Georg Huth was a German

Germany

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 Orientalist

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 and explorer

Exploration

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Huth was born in Krotoszyn

Krotoszyn

Krotoszyn is a town in central Poland with 30,010 inhabitants . It has been part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship since 1999; it was within Kalisz Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998....

 (Krotoschin) in the Province of Posen

Province of Posen

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, Prussia

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. In 1885 he entered the University of Berlin, and he graduated at the University of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

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 (Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

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) in 1889. In 1891 he established himself at Berlin University as lecturer in Central Asia

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tic languages and in Buddhism

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. In 1897 he undertook a journey to Siberia

Siberia

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 for the purpose of studying Tungusic

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The Tungusic languages form a language family spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria by Tungusic peoples. Many Tungusic languages are endangered, and the long-term future of the family is uncertain...

, receiving a subvention from the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg

Russian Academy of Sciences

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. He went to eastern Turkestan

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 with the Turpan expedition of the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde of Berlin, in 1902, and spent the following year in western Turkestan studying Turkish

Turkish language

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 dialects and folklore

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Works

He published, among others, the following works:

• "Die Zeit des Kālidāsa
  Kalidasa
  Kālidāsa was a renowned Classical Sanskrit writer, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language...
  
  " (Berlin, 1889);
• "The Chandoratnākara of Ratnākaraçānti" (Sanskrit
  Sanskrit
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   text with Tibetan
  Tibetan language
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   translation), a work on Sanskrit
  Sanskrit
  Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...
  
   prosody (ib. 1890);
• Geschichte des Buddhismus in der Mongolei: aus dem Tibetischen des 'Jigs-med-nam-mkha' (vol. i, Tibetan text; vol. ii, German transl., Strasburg, 1892-96);
• "Die Inschriften von Tsaghan Baišing," Tibetan-Mongolian text with linguistic and historical notes, printed at the expense of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (Leipzig, 1894);
• "Die Tungusische Volkslitteratur und Ihre Ethnologische Ausbeute," in the Bulletin of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1901).