Lorenz Franz Kielhorn

Lorenz Franz Kielhorn (31 May 1840, Osnabrück – 19 March 1908, Göttingen) was a German Indologist.

He studied under Theodor Benfey at the University of Göttingen, where he became member of Burschenschaft Hannovera (fraternity),[1] and under Adolf Friedrich Stenzler at Breslau and with Albrecht Weber in Berlin.

[2] In 1862-65 he worked in Oxford, where he assisted Monier Williams in the production of a Sanskrit dictionary.

[5] After the death of Georg Bühler (1837-1898), he edited the "Grundriss der indoarischen Philologie".

[6] In 1887, Kielhorn was appointed an honorary Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) for his services in Pune.