Quotes:Thibaut, George Frederick William

Zirkoff, Boris

Thibaut, George Frederick William. German scholar, b. at Heidelberg, 1848, the son of Karl Thibaut, Librarian to the University; d. in 1914. Educated at the Gymnasium of his native town, and the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin. Went to England, 1871, working several years as assistant to F. Max Müller; appointed, 1875, Anglo-Sanskrit Professor in the Benares Sanskrit College; Principal of the College, 1879-88; Professor, Muir Central College, Allahabad, 1888-95. Thibaut’s literary work was chiefly in the domain of Indian philosophy, astronomy and mathematics. Among his many writings, special mention should be made of the following: The Panchasiddhantika, the astronomical work of Varäha Mihira, 533 with translation (in collaboration with Sudhakara Dvivedi), 1889.—The Vedanta Sutras, with Sankara’s Commentary, translated (Sacred Books of the East, Vols. 34 and 38; and with Ramanuja’s Comm, ditto, Vol. 48).—“Indian Astronomy, Astrology and Mathematics,” in Buhler’s Encyclopaedia of Indian Research, 1899.—Thibaut also edited, together with R. Griffith, the Benares Sanskrit Series.

H. P. B. refers to Thibaut’s art. “On the Suryaprajnapti,” in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. 49, Pt. 1.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, pp. 532-533