Uber das Alter und die Echtheit der Zendsprache und des Zend-Avesta, und Herstellung des Zend-alphab [German]

by Rasmus Christian Rask

Book Overview

Rasmus Rask (1787-1832) was a Danish scholar who, having devoted the early part of his career to the Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon languages and literature, embarked upon a journey overland through Russia to India in search of the cradle of the Indo-European languages. He was delighted to rediscover the Avestan Zoroastrian texts preserved by the Parsis which Anquetil du Perron had first reported on sixty years earlier, and further Avestan materials, as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: German
• ISBN: 1108006612
• ISBN13: 9781108006613
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"