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Hans Jørgensen

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Hans Jørgensen (1886–1954) was the founder of Newar studies in the west. He published a Newar grammar and dictionary and studies of a number of newar texts.[1] He received his doctorate in 1911 at Kiel University in Sanskrit and worked at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin until 1919.[1] In 1927 he traveled to England to consult Newar manuscripts at Cambridge with the support of the Carlsberg Foundation.[1]

Works of Hans Jørgensen

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  • Jørgensen, Hans (1921). “Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis des Nevari.” Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 75: 213-236.
  • Jørgensen, Hans (1936). A dictionary of the classical Newārī. Copenhagen: E. Munksgaard.[2]
  • Jørgensen, Hans (1941). A grammar of the classical Newārī. Copenhagen: E. Munksgaard

References

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  1. ^ a b c Dansk Biografisk Leksikon: Hans Jørgensen (Accessed Nov 2011)
  2. ^ Wolfenden, Stuart N.(1938)Reviews of Books: A Dictionary of the Classical Newārī. By Hans Jørgensen. Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Historisk-filologiske Meddelelser, XXIII, i. 9½ × 6, pp. 178. København: Levin and Munksgaard, 1936. Kr. 9.50. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 70 : pp 444-446

Further reading

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  • Boye Andersen i Alsisk kalender II, 1969 37–40. Nevarigitimanjart, udg. Siegfried Lienhard, Sth. 1974 = Sth. Oriental studies X (forord og noter). – Papirer i Kgl. bibl.