Education
He studied at Breslau and Munich, and became professor in the former university.
He studied at Breslau and Munich, and became professor in the former university.
His specialty was Vedic mythology. Varuna und Mitra, ein Beitrag Zur Exegese des Veda (Breslau, 1877) was a prologue to his great work Vedische Mythologie (1891-1902). Hillebrandt also wrote: Das altindische Neuund Vollmondsopfer (The old Indian new and full moon sacrifices, 1880), Vedachrestomathie (1885), a section on religious antiquities in Buhler"s Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde (1897), and Alternate-Indien, Kulturgeschichtliche Skizzen (Historical culture sketches of old India, 1899).
Prussian Academy of Sciences.