Alfred Hillebrandt
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Alfred Hillebrandt was a German Sanskrit scholar.
. Varuna und Mitra (1877) was a prologue to his great work Vedische Mythologie (1891-1902). Hillebrandt also wrote: Das altindische Neu- und 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 Alt-Indien, Kulturgeschichtliche Skizzen (Historical culture sketches of old India, 1899).
Biography
He studied at Breslau and Munich, and became professor in the former university. His specialty was Vedic mythologyVedic mythology
Vedic mythology refers to the mythological aspects of the historical Vedic religion and Vedic literature, most notably alluded to in the hymns of the Rigveda...
. Varuna und Mitra (1877) was a prologue to his great work Vedische Mythologie (1891-1902). Hillebrandt also wrote: Das altindische Neu- und 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 Alt-Indien, Kulturgeschichtliche Skizzen (Historical culture sketches of old India, 1899).