J. A. B. van Buitenen
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Johannes Adrianus Bernardus van Buitenen (21 May 1928 – 21 September 1979) was a Dutch Indologist at the University of Chicago where he was the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. He was one of the world's leading Sanskrit scholars.[2] His interests ranged widely over literature, philosophy and philology, but toward the end of his career he focused primarily on the Mahābhārata.
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Born | The Hague, Netherlands |
Died | Champaign, Illinois, U.S.[1] |
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