Sten Konow

He then studied in Kristiania before moving to Halle and worked in the Oslo University library for some time.

In 1900, he was hired to work in the Linguistic Survey of India under George Grierson.

He translated Rajasekhara's Karpuramanjari, which was published as volume 4 of the Harvard Oriental Series in 1901.

In 1906, he was appointed as a government epigraphist and travelled across India, taking part in excavations at Sarnath.

[1] Konow married Anne Helene Schorcht née Heyerdahl (1869–1930) in 1904 and they had a daughter, Agnes Helene, who married Konow's student, the linguist Georg Morgenstierne.