Hermann Oldenberg
Hermann Oldenberg
Born	(1854-10-31)31 October 1854 Hamburg, Germany
Died	18 May 1920(1920-05-18) (aged 65)
Occupations	Orientalist,Indologist

Hermann Oldenberg (31 October 1854 – 18 March 1920) was a German scholar ofIndology, and Professor atKiel (1898) andGöttingen (1908).

Oldenberg was born inHamburg. His 1881 study onBuddhism, entitledBuddha: Sein Leben, seine Lehre, seine Gemeinde, based onPāli texts, popularized Buddhism and has remained continuously in print since its first publication. WithT. W. Rhys Davids, he edited and translated into English three volumes ofTheravadaVinaya texts, two volumes of the (Vedic)Grhyasutras and two volumes ofVedic hymns on his own account, in the monumentalSacred Books of the East series edited byMax Müller. With hisProlegomena (1888), Oldenberg laid the groundwork to the philological study of theRigveda.

In 1919 he became a foreign member of theRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[1]

He died inGöttingen.

• Oldenberg, Hermann,Die Religion des Veda. Berlin 1894; Stuttgart 1917; Stuttgart 1927; Darmstadt 1977
• Oldenberg, Hermann, trans. Müller, Max, ed.Vedic Hymns, part 2: Hymns to Agni. TheSacred Books of the East, vol. 46, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1897. Reprint: Low Price Publications 1996,ISBN 8175360321.
• Oldenberg, Hermann, trans./ed."The Dîpavaṃsa: An Ancient Buddhist Historical Record, London: Williams and Norgate 1879.
• Oldenberg, Hermann.Buddha: his life, his doctrine, his order, London, Williams 1882.
• Oldenberg, Hermann, trans., Max Müller, ed. Sacred Books of the East Vol. XXIX,"The Grihya-sûtras, rules of Vedic domestic ceremonies", part 1, Oxford, The Clarendon press 1886
• Oldenberg, Hermann, trans. Müller, Max, trans. Sacred Books of the East Vol. XXX,"The Grihya-sûtras, rules of Vedic domestic ceremonies", part 2, Oxford, The Clarendon press 1892
• Rhys Davids, T. W.; Oldenberg, Hermann, trans. (1881–85).Vinaya Texts,Sacred Books of the East, volumes XIII, XVII & XX, Clarendon/Oxford. Reprint: Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi (Dover, New York)Vol. XIII, Mahavagga I-IV,Vol. XVII, Mahavagga V-X, Kullavagga I-III,Vol. XX, Kullavagga IV-XII

• Walter Troxler (1993). "OLDENBERG, Hermann". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.).Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 6. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 1177–1178.ISBN 3-88309-044-1.
• Friedrich Wilhelm (1999)."Oldenberg, Hermann".Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 19. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 507–508. (full text online).

• Works by or aboutHermann Oldenberg atWikisource

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