Quotes:Westergaard, Niels Ludwig

Zirkoff, Boris

Westergaard, Niels Ludwig. Danish Orientalist and philosopher, b. at Copenhagen, 1815.; d. 1878. Educated in native city. Went to Bonn, 1838, to study Sanskrit. Visited Paris, London, Oxford, ret. to Denmark. Journeyed to India, 1841. Went to Persia and Russia, 1843-44. Professor of Ind. philology at Copenhagen Univ., 1845-78. Works: Sanskrit Loesebog. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1846. 4to. — Bundehesh, Liber Pehlvicus. Trans, by N. L. W., 1851. 4to. — Zendavesta. Ed. and trans, by N. L. W., 1852-54. 4to. — Über den ältesten Zeitraum der indischen Geschichte mit Rücksicht auf die Litteratur — *Über Buddha’s Todesjahr und einige andere Zeitpunkte in der älteren Geschichte Indiens. Trans, from the Danish by A. F. Stenzler. Breslau: A. Gosohorsky, 1862.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 5, p. 384