Lorenz Franz Kielhorn was a German Indologist.

Kielhorn worked in Oxford in the period 1862-65 with Friedrich Max Müller in order to publish the first edition of Rigveda

Rigveda

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. From 1866 to 1881 he was Professor of Sanskrit

Sanskrit

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 at Deccan College

Deccan College

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 in Pune

Pune

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 and after 1882 in Göttingen. Kielhorn's results from the handling of rich material that he himself partially collected and partially got sent, is mainly explained in Indian antiquary and Epigraphia indica. After the death of Bühler he edited the Grundriss der indoarischen Philologie. Together with Bühler, Kielhorn had initiated the series Bombay Sanskrit series

Works

• Çāntanava’s Phitsūtra (with translation in in Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, IV, 1866)
• Nāgojibhatta’s Paribhāşenduçekhara (translated in in Bombay Sanskrit series 1868)
• Sanskrit grammar (1870, translated into German by W. Solf)
• 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)