Bopp, Franz, a celebrated German philologist and Sanskrit scholar, born at Mayence; was professor of Oriental Literature and General Philology at Berlin; his greatest work, “A Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Old Slave, Gothic, and German”; translated portions of the “Mahâbhârata,” q.v. (1791‒1867).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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