of Hoernle, indoloog, geb. 19 Oct. 1841 bij Agra in Indië, eerst zendeling, later hoogleeraar in het Sanskriet en philosophie te Benares, vestigde zich in 1899 te Oxford in Engeland, gaf o. a. in het licht de volgende in de „Bibliotheca Indica” verschenen tekstuitgaven en overzettingen: The Prakrita-lakshanam or Chanda’s grammar of the ancient (arsha) Prakrit (Calcutta 1880), The Prithiraj liasau, an old Hindi epic, commonly ascribed to Chand Bardai (1886), The Uvasagadasao.... edited in the original Prakrit with the Sanskrit commentary of Abhayadeva, The Sugruta-sainhita or the Hindu system of medicine according to Sugruta. Translated from the original Sanskrit (1897), verder heeft men van hem: A comparative grammar of the Gaudian languages (Lond. 1880), A comparative dictionary of the Bihari language (met G.
Grierson, Calcutta 1885, 1889), The Bower Manuscript, facsimile leaves, Nagari transcript, romanised transliteration and English translation with notes (aid. 1893 v.v.).
