Background
Theodor Goldstucker was born on the 18th of January in 1821. He was born of Jewish parents in Königsberg.
Indologist Orientalist university professor
Theodor Goldstucker was born on the 18th of January in 1821. He was born of Jewish parents in Königsberg.
After attending the gymnasium of that town, Theodor Goldstucker entered its university in 1836 as a student of Sanskrit. In 1838 he removed to Bonn, and, after graduating at Königsberg in 1840, proceeded to Paris.
In 1842 Theodor Goldstucker edited a German translation of the Prabodhacandrodaya by Kṛṣṇamiśra Yati (fl c 1050-1100), a standard text widely read by Sanskrit students in India.
Theodor Goldstucker was asked to leave Berlin during the revolutions of 1848 in the German states. In 1850 he moved to London at the invitation of H. H. Wilson. In 1852 he was appointed professor of Sanskrit in University College London.
Theodor Goldstucker worked on a new edition of Wilson's Sanskrit dictionary, of which the first instalment appeared in 1856. But his work became infeasibly long and detailed, and publication of the dictionary ground to a halt. In 1861 he published his best known work Panini: his place in Sanscrit Literature.