On the Language and Philosophy of the Indians

Schlegel, Friedrich von

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“…An important concept for Schlegel was linguistic affinity, which he marks between Sanskrit and a number of other languages, first of all, Ancient Greek and Latin, as well as German and Persian. Affinity is reflected, in his opinion, not only in the set of similar roots, but also in the grammatical and inner structure of languages [7]. However, it is Sanskrit that is filled with the greatest wealth and at the same time harmony.…”

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“…Schlegel (1772-1829), who wrote in 1808 in his work On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians: "The study of Indian literature requires to be embraced by such students and patrons as in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries suddenly kindled in Italy and Germany an ardent appreciation of the beauty of classical learning, and in so short a time invested it with such prevailing importance, that the form of all wisdom and science, and almost of the world itself, was changed and renovated by the influence of that reawakened knowledge. I venture to predict that the Indian study, if embraced with equal energy, will prove no less grand and universal in its operation, and have no less influence on the sphere of European intelligence" [4]. Thus, Schlegel, therefore, can be considered the progenitor of the comparative comparison of the culture and language of Ancient India with the European one and drawing parallels of these studies of Indian heritage with the process of re-discovering of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, which took place in Europe at the Age of Renaissance.…”

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Schlegel and the Beginning of Comparative Linguistics in Europe

Kryshtop¹

2019

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)

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Schlegel is one of the most famous thinkers and writers of the 19th century in Germany. This period was interesting because of the spiritual situation which Europe was in and which could be characterized as crisis. It was evident for many outstanding people of that time who tried to find a way out of that. Such way out many of them saw in ancient philosophical and religious thought of India. This cultural phenomenon is known also as Oriental Renaissance. Schlegel was one of the thinkers who represent that. He tried not only to find similarities between European and Indian philosophical thought, religion and culture, but supposed that India was the mother of European spirituality as such. He found a proof to that also in languages. That was the main reason of Schlegel's interest to linguistics. He had a great scientific success in this field of knowledge. In fact he created and developed the concept of linguistic affinity and was the first thinker who tried to build foundations of comparative linguistics as science.

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Schlegel and the Beginning of Comparative Linguistics in Europe

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2019

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“…104 Schlegel's essay, in fact, concluded that the linguistic connection between Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin proved that "the Europeans and Asiatics form only one great family," and the philosopher expressed his hopes that, in the light of this discovery, "all prejudiced and narrow ideas will thus unconsciously disappear." 105 Marchand argues, however, that by the middle decades of the nineteenth century, "lines drawn by philologists were . .…”

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The Lost Caucasian Civilization: Jean-Sylvain Bailly and the Roots of the Aryan Myth

Harvey

2014

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Jean-Sylvain Bailly, an eighteenth-century French astronomer and polymath, elaborated an original interpretation of the prehistoric origins of civilization which anticipated many of the details of the “Aryan myth.” Bailly argued that Atlantis was the root civilization of mankind, which had invented the arts and sciences and civilized the Chinese, Indians, and Egyptians. He situated this primordial people in the far north of Eurasia, and argued that as the cooling of the Earth buried their ancestral home beneath sheets of ice, the Atlanteans were lost to history. Bailly drew eclectically upon science, classical mythology, linguistics, and orientalism to substantiate his case, and argued that the Brahmans who shaped Indian civilization were Sanskrit-speaking Atlanteans. His theories reflected many of the prevailing ideas of the age, such as the climate determinism of Montesquieu and Buffon and the superiority of the dynamic West over the decadent Orient. Though Bailly did not racialize the Atlanteans, his works laid the foundations for the subsequent emergence of the Aryan myth.

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On the Language and Philosophy of the Indians

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