Viggo Fausböll

Viggo Fausböll
Fausböll, c. 1900
Born	(1821-09-22)22 September 1821 Høve, Denmark
Died	3 June 1908(1908-06-03) (aged 86)
Occupation	Orientalist

Michael Viggo Fausböll (22 September 1821 – 3 June 1908) was a Danish educator, translator, orientalist and linguist. He was a pioneer of Pāli scholarship. ^[1]

Biography

Fausbøll was born at Hove near Lemvig, Denmark. He became a student at the University of Copenhagen in 1838 and received his Cand.theol. in 1847. From 1878 to 1902 Fausbøll was professor at the University of Copenhagen where he taught Sanskrit and East Indian philology.

His Latin translation of the Dhammapada was published in 1855 with a new edition in 1900. It formed the basis for the first complete translation of this text into English, by philologist Max Müller in the Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set published by Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910.^[2]

He became a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1888, Dannebrogsmand in 1891 and Commander 2nd degree in 1898. He died at Gentofte in 1908 and was buried at Gentofte Cemetery.

Publications

Fausböll's translations include:

• The Dhammapada: Being a collection of moral verses in Pali (trans. into Latin) (Copenhagen, 1855).
• Sutta-Nipata (Sacred Books of the East) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1881; and, London: PTS, 1885).
• Jataka with Commentary (London: PTS, 1877-1896).^[3]

Fausböll also wrote:

• Indian mythology according to the Mahabharata. (London: Luzac, 1903; reprinted as Indian mythology according to the Indian epics, New Delhi: Cosmo, 1981)^[4]

References

1. "Fausbøll, Michael Viggo". Salmonsens konversationsleksikon. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
2. "The Sacred Books of the East". sacred-texts.com. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
3. Scherer, Burkhard (2001). "Fausbøll, Viggo, The Dhammapada. Being a collection of moral verses in Pali. Edited a second time with a literal Latin translation and notes for the use of Pali students". Indo-Iranian Journal. 44 (2): 172–173. doi:10.1023/A:1012252226747. S2CID 189775176.
4. Fausbøll, V. (Viggo), 1821-1908 Library of Congress Retrieved 12 Nov. 2008

External links

Fausböll, V. (trans.) (1881) The Dhammapada translated from the Pâli by V. Fausböll; translated into English by F. Max Müller