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Wilhelm Geiger
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Wilhelm Ludwig Geiger (1856-1943) was a German Orientalist, in the fields of Indian and Iranian languages. He was known as a specialist in Pali and the Dhivehi language of the Maldives. LifeHe travelled to Ceylon in 1895 to study the language. He appeared on a stamp in Sri Lanka, in 1989. The physicist Hans Geiger, inventor of the Geiger counter, was his son. Works- A Grammar of the Sinhalese Language
- Mahavamsa : the great chronicle of Ceylon, translation ()
- Pali Literature and Language; revised by K. R. Norman under the title A Pali Grammar
- Ceylon. Tagebuchblätter und Reiseerinnerungen.
- Maldivian Linguistic Studies. Colombo 1919.
- Grundriss der iranischen Philologie, with Ernst Kuhn
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